David Harrington Watt - (Ph.D., Harvard University), Associate Professor History | david.watt@temple.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: U.S. Religious History; U.S. Intellectual History; Twentieth Century U.S. Social and Cultural History.
Personal Statement: My primary area of research is the United States in the twentieth century. My first book focused on the intellectual history of popular evangelicalism in the years between the famous Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee and the election of Jimmy Carter. My second book used ethnographic research to rethink the relationship between Bible-carrying Christians and social power in Reagan's America. My current research project is tentatively titled: “Putting the Fundamentalist in their Place: the History of an Unhelpful Category.”
Grants:from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the Lilly Endowment
Professional Service:Fulbright Senior Scholar in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Representative Publications:
“Protestantism.” The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Third Edition . Forthcoming.
“Jews, Fundamentalism and Supersessionism.” The Proceedings of the International Hawaii Conference on the Humanities 2006.
“The Meaning and End of Fundamentalism.” Religious Studies Review 30 (October 2004): 271-274.
Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power (Oxford University Press, 2002).
“United States." In Between States and Markets: The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective . ed. Robert Wuthnow. (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1991), 243-287.
A Transforming Faith: An Exploration of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism (Rutgers University Press, 1991).
"Religion and the Nation: 1960 to the Present," in Church and State in America , ed. John F. Wilson (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987), 263-299. |
