Assistant Professor
dwlogan@uncg.edu
Dr. Logan is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life. Her forthcoming book is titled Awkward Ritual: Sensations of Governance in Protestant Civil Society. Most recently she has been researching Shaker dancing in the mid-nineteenth century and the practicalities of revivalism in the nineteenth century. Her work often considers the blurred lines between work, consumerism, and religion. She teaches classes on the history of American religion, evangelicalism, “cults,” race and religion, and the role of religion in celebrity culture.
Indiana University, Bloomington (2015)
Ph.D. Religious Studies,
Minor in American Studies
Dissertation: “Uncivil Rituals: Civil Religion and Democracy in New York City, 1780-1850”
Committee Members: Candy Gunther Brown, Richard B. Miller, Micol Seigel, and Wendy Gamber
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA (2009)
MTS, History of Christianity
Reed College, Portland, OR (2007)
BA, American Studies-Religious Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (2020-)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Connecticut College (2018-2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington University in St. Louis (2016-2018)
Merton Teaching Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Mercyhurst University (2015-2016)
Awkward Ritual: Sensations of Governance in Protestant Civil Society, book manuscript under review with University of Chicago Press.
“Shaker Fan Fic,” American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 121-126.
“The Lean Closet: Asceticism in Post-Industrial Consumerism,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85, no. 3 (September, 2017): 600-628.
“Circulating Sin: Black Sailors and Benevolence in Early Nineteenth-Century New York,” in Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power ed. Micol Seigel (New York: Routledge, 2018).
“Lydia Maria Child and the Urbanity of Religious Cosmopolitanism in Antebellum New York City,” The Journal of Urban History, article first published online: April 16, 2015 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144215578605
“What Would a Religious History of Goop Look Like?” in “Roundtable on the Lean Closet: Asceticism in Post-Industrial Consumerism,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 47, no. 3-4 (September-December 2018): 14-18.
“Republicanism: Religious Studies and Church History meet Political History,” in “Forum on Antebellum American Protestantism,” Church History 84, no. 3 (September, 2015): 621-624.
“Commerce, Consumerism, and Christianity in America,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
“Orphanages,” “Alexander Griswold,” “Elias Hicks,” “James B. Finley,” “Ezra Stiles Gannett,” and “Lewis Wallace,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States ed. Mark A. Lamport (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). BOOK REVIEWS
Review of David Walker’s Railroading Religion: Mormonism, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West (forthcoming in American Religion 2020)
Review of Brett Grainger’s Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America Reading Religion (August 3, 2020).
Review of Katherine Lofton’s Consuming Religion, Reading Religion (December 13, 2017).
Review of Kathryn Gin Lum’s Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction, Reading Religion (August 4, 2016).
Review of David Morgan’s The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25 (Spring 2013): 165-166.
Ethics Fellow, Evelyn Lincoln Institute for Ethics & Society, Mercyhurst University (2015-2016)
Devonia and Steve Stein Fellowship for the Study of American Religions, Indiana University (2015)
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Indiana University (2014-2015)
College of Arts and Sciences Louise McNutt Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University (2009-2010)
Department of Religious Studies
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