Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
2012-2014
2011-2014
EDUCATION
2013
Ph.D., Religion, Florida State University
2009
M.A., Religion, Florida State University
2006
B.A., History, Washburn University
SCHOLARSHIP
Monograph
A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson and the Great War of the Protestant Establishment
(manuscript under contract, University of Chicago Press)
Edited Volume
Area Editor, America and the World, 1898-1945, in America and the World, 1776 to the Present,
Dictionary of American History Supplement, eds. Edward Blum, Cara Burnidge, Emily ConroyKrutz, David Kinkela (Scribners)
Journal Articles
The Business of Church and State: Social Christianity in Woodrow Wilsons White House,
Forum: Religion in American Public Life: Presidential Expressions of Christianity, Church
History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 82, no. 3 (September 2013): 659-666.
Following in His Steps: Kansas, the Kingdom of God, and Charles M. Sheldon's
Homiletic Novels Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (Spring
2012), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2012/burnidge.htm.
Book Chapters
Religious Influences on U.S. Foreign Policy, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American
History, ed. Jon Butler (New York: Oxford University Press) (peer review and submitted)
Religious Language and the League of Nations, in American Churches and the First World
War, ed. Gordon Heath (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick) (under contract)
2015
2014
2014
Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations: A Roundtable on the State of the Study
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Meeting
2014
By the Hand of God Who Led Us: The Senates Crusade Against the League of
Nations, Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in 20th
Century America, John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington
University, St. Louis
2014
The Product and Purpose of Gods Mind: Debating Religious Rhetoric in the
Covenant of the League of Nations, Placing Faith in American Global Policy,
American Society of Church History Winter Meeting
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
Memories of Progress, Memories of Racial (In)Equality: The ReligiousHistorical Narrative of Charles M. Sheldons The Redemption of Freetown,
Religion, Culture, and the Arts Section, AAR-SE/SECSOR, Annual Meeting
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Book Reviews
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green, eds., The Southern Middle Class in the Long
Nineteenth Century, The Southern Historian (Forthcoming).
William A. Norgren, Faith and Order in the U.S.A.: A Brief History of Studies and
Relationships, Religious Studies Review (Forthcoming).
Aaron Belkin. Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Faade of American Empire,
1898-2001, Journal of American Culture 37, no. 2 (June 2014): 218-219.
Timothy Miller, Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World, Novo
Religio 17, no. 4 (May 2014): 119-120.
Richard Landes, ed., The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Nova Religio 16, no. 4 (2013): 141-142,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.141.
Lila Corwin Berman, Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American
Public Identity, Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 4, no. 1 (2013): 117-119,
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol4/iss1/7.
James A. Forbes, Jr., Whose Gospel?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism,
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 24, no. 3 (2012): 469-470.
Susan K. Harris, Gods Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902, Past Tense 1, no. 1
(2012): 136-138.
Cynthia Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography. Society for Historians of the Gilded
Age and Progressive Era, H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews, http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33118, (2012).
Randall Balmer, The Making of Evangelicalism. Symposia 3 (2011),
http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/article/view/14425/11468.
Nathaniel Deutsch, Inventing Americas Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the
Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Islam, Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies
2.1 (2010): 111-113.
Encyclopedia Articles
Religion and Foreign Policy, Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, ed. Philip
DiMare (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [under review]).
Woodrow Wilson, Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, ed. Philip DiMare
(Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [under review]).
Ecumenicalism, Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade
Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:328-330.
Hindu Nationalism, Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and
Wade Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:517-518.
Islamic Reform, Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade
Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:591-594.
Protestant Liberalism, Encyclopedia of Religion in America, eds. Charles Lippy and
Peter Williams (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010), III:1782-90.
Public Lecture
Does a Presidents Faith Shape Policy?: Woodrow Wilson as a Case Study for Today,
University of Northern Iowa, cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy and World
Religions and the Department of History
TEACHING
Courses Taught
University of Northern Iowa
Spring 2015 History of Religion
Fall 2015
Religion and Politics
Spring 2015 Religion in America
2014-present Religions of the World
Florida State University
2013-2014
Introduction to World Religions
2011
Islam in the Modern World
2009-2011
2008-2009
2014
2014
2014