Heath W. Carter Assistant Professor of History Valparaiso University

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1 Heath W. Carter Assistant Professor of History Valparaiso University 1400 Chapel Drive (219) Valparaiso, IN Education 2012 Doctor of Philosophy in United States History, University of Notre Dame 2009 Master of Arts in United States History, University of Notre Dame 2005 Master of Arts in American Religious History, University of Chicago Divinity School 2003 Bachelor of Arts in English and Theology, magna cum laude, Georgetown University Current Book Projects Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. This study s central argument is that social Christianity was in no small part union made. By this I mean that working people cultivated social gospels long before Jane Addams, Walter Rauschenbusch, and other middle-class reformers emerged on the scene. I show, furthermore, that the rise of that later Social Gospel movement must be understood, in part, as a response to generations of concerted working-class religious activism. The manuscript is, at once, a social history of Christian responses to industrialization and an intellectual history of working-class religious dissent. What emerges from it is a much more complicated picture of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism in the Gilded Age. Between the Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the Working Classes in Industrial America. A collection of essays, which I am co-editing with Christopher Cantwell, assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri; and Janine Giordano Drake, Widener Fellow at the University of Illinois. Publications Articles: Striking Out on its Own: Labor and the Modern Church, Chicago History 37, No. 2 (Summer 2011): Scab Ministers, Striking Saints: Christianity and Class Conflict in 1894 Chicago, American Nineteenth Century History 11, No. 3 (September 2010): Winner of a national prize: the Working-Class Studies Association s 2011 C.L.R. James Prize for Best Article. Winner, also, of two prizes at the University of Notre Dame: the Phillip

2 Gleason Prize for Best Article Published by a Graduate Student in History, and the Higgins Labor Center s John Joyce Prize for Best Graduate Article. Making Peace with Jim Crow: Religious Leaders and the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, The Journal of Illinois History 11, No. 4 (Winter 2008): Book Reviews: John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov, Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction, scheduled for publication in the June 2013 edition of Reviews in American History. David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism, in The Christian Century 130, No. 2 (January 23, 2013): Richard J. Callahan, Jr., Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust, in The Journal of Southern Religion 13 (2011). Stephen Tuck, We Ain t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle From Emancipation to Obama, in Southern Historian 32 (Spring 2011): E.J. Dionne, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right, in The United States Catholic Historian 26, No. 4 (Fall 2008): Encyclopedia Entries: Entries on The Silent Majority, The I Have A Dream Speech, and Walter Reuther, in The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc, Entries on Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company and Christian Socialism, in The Encyclopedia of Populism. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc, Online Writings: I contribute to the scholarly blog, Religion in American History. My posts can be found at Fellowships and Awards Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library 2011 Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship 2011 American Society of Church History Spring Conference Paper Award University of Notre Dame History Department Fellowship (Full Tuition + Stipend)

3 2009 Institute for the Study of the Liberal Arts Graduate Student Research Award 2008 Kaneb Center s Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, History of Chicago Religion in American History The United States from 1945-Present Public History Workshop (independent study) The Human Experience Lecturer, North Park Theological Seminary, 2011 Christian Heritage I Lecturer, Loyola University (Chicago), History of Religion in the United States Instructor, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, Seminars: A People s History of Chicago, Chicago: City in Crisis The Other Mayors: Chicago Beyond the Daleys Everyday America, Everyday America, Lecturer, University of Illinois (Chicago), Religious Experiences in American History Advanced Readings in American Religious History Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame, Jacksonian America United States History from 1865 Introduction to Canadian History Academic Presentations Trust in God and Keep Your Powder Dry : Ministers, the Mob, and the Making of the Protestant Middle Classes in Gilded Age Chicago. Presented at the Newberry Library Urban History Dissertation Group, 3 March 2012; and at the Colloquium on

4 Religion and History, University of Notre Dame, 23 February I delivered an earlier version at the American Society of Church History, Calvin College, 7-9 April Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Delivered at the joint meeting of the American Historical Association and the American Society of Church History, Chicago, IL, 5-8 January Presented also at the Newberry Library Labor History Seminar, 3 February 2012; and at the Colloquium on Religion and History, University of Notre Dame, 21 April Scab Ministers, Striking Saints: Christianity and Class Conflict in 1894 Chicago. I have presented different versions of this paper at the Higgins Labor Research Workshop, University of Notre Dame, 29 April 2011; at the Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University, 7-9 October 2010; at the American Religious History Workshop, University of Chicago, 1 February 2010; and at the Colloquium on Religion and History, University of Notre Dame, on both 27 January 2010 and 23 January Teaching the Introductory Course in American Religious History. Presentation to the Colloquium on Religion and History, University of Notre Dame, 4 February Capitalism and its Discontents in Canada, Guest lecture delivered to students enrolled in Introduction to Canadian History, University of Notre Dame, 23 September Evangelicalism, Politics, and American Culture. Guest lecture delivered to students enrolled in The Sociology of Religion, North Park University, Chicago, IL, 26 October Evangelicalism and American Politics, Guest lecture delivered to students enrolled in Introduction to Sociology, Loyola University (Chicago), 26 July The Burned-Over Republic. Guest lecture delivered to students enrolled in Jacksonian America, University of Notre Dame, 23 October Public Lectures The Occupy Movement: Precedents and Prospects. Delivered to the Valparaiso Organization for Learning and Teaching Seniors, Valparaiso, IN, 29 November Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Delivered at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 11 July Absolving Anarchy: John P. Altgeld and the Pardon that Shook Gilded Age America. Delivered at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, 13 March Tale, Translation, and Trajectory of Peer Gynt. Moderated and participated in panel discussion at the Chicago Cultural Center, 5 December The Gospel of the Working Classes. Moderated public discussion of a new book by historians Erik Gellman and Jarod Roll at Roosevelt University, 25 October 2011.

5 The Churches and the Market in United States History. Delivered at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Glen Ellyn, IL, 8 March The Churches and Nationalism in United States History. Delivered at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Glen Ellyn, IL, 1 March Professional Service Peer Reviewer, Various Institutions 2011-Present I have peer reviewed manuscripts for publications and presses, including the Journal of Southern Religion and Intervarsity Press. Member of the Steering Committee, Chicago Committee for Working-Class Studies 2011-Present I participate in conversations regarding the Committee s mission, manage its online social networking presence, and contribute to the planning of educational and cultural events. Graduate Student Representative on History Search Committee, University of Notre Dame Read applications, interviewed candidates, and participated in hire of a 20 th Century United States historian. Assistant to the History Department, University of Notre Dame 2008 Prepared primary source packet for use in History (The Partition of India). Professional Memberships American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Labor and Working-Class History Association American Society of Church History