JOHN B. BOLES WILLIAM P. HOBBY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY RICE UNIVERSITY 2017

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1 JOHN B. BOLES WILLIAM P. HOBBY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY RICE UNIVERSITY 2017 PERSONAL Date and place of birth: Office address: October 20, 1943, in Houston, Texas History Department, MS 42 Rice University, P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas Telephone: office (713) ; home (713) ; cell (713) Fax: (713) Marital status: married to Nancy Gaebler Boles with children David (b. 1973) and Matthew (b. 1980); four grandchildren EDUCATION B.A., Rice University, 1965 Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1969 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Towson State College, Associate Professor, Towson State College, Professor, Towson State University, NEH Fellow in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Associate Professor, Rice University, Associate Professor, Tulane University, Acting Associate Chairman, Tulane University, Professor of History, Tulane University, Professor of History, Rice University, 1981 Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair in History, Rice University, William Pettus Hobby Professor of History, Rice University, 1997 Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching, Visiting Professor, Baylor University, Spring 2000 Fulbright-Leipzig Chair in American Studies, University of Leipzig, Fall 2005 Leibniz Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Leipzig, Fall 2009

2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Editing of scholarly journals Book Review Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine, Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine, December 1974 December 1977 Editorial Board, Maryland Historical Magazine, Associate Editor, Acting Editor, Journal of Southern History, Editorial Board, Journal of Southern History, Associate Editor, Journal of Southern History, Editor, Journal of Southern History, ; Editor emeritus, 2013 Other positions Co-associate Director, Center for the History of Leadership Institutions, Rice University, Director of Symposia, Dixie Dateline, Tulane, 1981; Interpreting Southern History, Rice University, 1983; Symposium Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of C. Vann Woodward s Origins of the New South, Rice University, February 2001; Southern National Bank Symposium on the Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century, Rice University, February 2005; Thomas Jefferson in His Time and Ours, Rice University, February 23 25, 2007; The South and the World in the Civil War Era, Rice University, February 20 23, 2009; Slavery in the Colonial South, Rice University, February 18 20, 2011; As Others Have Seen Us: British Perspectives on American History, Rice University, April 3 6, National Consultant, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, 1982 Director, Mellon Seminar for College Teachers, Rice University, May 1984 and May 1988 Invited Senior Faculty Member, NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, University of Colorado, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990 Organizer and Director, Houston Area Southern Historians, 1988 Local Arrangements Chair, Third Southern Association for Women s History Conference, 1994 Local Arrangements Chair, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Houston, March 17 20, Board of Directors, The Melanchthon Institute, Board of Directors, The Jefferson Davis Association Board of Directors, The Rice Historical Society Board of Advisory Editors, The Papers of Jefferson Davis Board of Consulting Editors, The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery Board of Consulting Editors, Chronology of World Slavery Editor, Religion in the South series, University Press of Kentucky HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS Thomas Jefferson Foundation Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, Towson State College Special Achievement Citation, 1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, Louisiana Committee for the Humanities Grant,

3 Texas Committee for the Humanities Grant, 1982 Burkitt Foundation Grant, 1982 and 1986 Association of Rice Alumni Meritorious Service Award, 1991 Doughtie Outstanding College Associate Award, 1994 Graduate Student Association Teaching Award, 1994 Renaissance Weekend participant, 1997, 1999 Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching, Baylor University, Spring Semester 2000 Association of Rice Alumni Distinguished Alumni Award, 2004 Graduate Student Association Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2004 Presidential Mentoring Award, 2006 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, 2007 and 2009 Friends of Fondren Library Award, 2010 Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal, 2012 President, Southern Historical Association, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Southern Historical Association Southern Association for Women s History Houston Philosophical Society (President, ) Philosophical Society of Texas COURSES TAUGHT AT RICE UNIVERSITY FWIS 153, the Lewis and Clark Expedition History 213/413, Slavery in North America History 242, Southern Autobiography History 314, Religion in America to 1860 History 395, Old South History 396, New South (These two courses have been collapsed into History 395, The American South) History 422, Seminar Topics in the History of Rice University History 432, Seminar, Thomas Jefferson and His Age History 535, Graduate Colloquium in American History History 583, Research Seminar on Religion and Slavery in the Old South History 595, Reading Seminar on the American South GRADUATE TRAINING I have directed 61 doctoral dissertations, 1 at Tulane and 60 at Rice University, and there 1 is in progress. It will be finished by May SERVICE To Rice University University Speaker Committee, Alumni Publications Committee, Will Rice College Associate, 1982 Challenge Grant Planning Committee,

4 Panel Chair, Self-Study Committee, Vice President for External Affairs, Search Committee, 1986 Library Committee , 1998, Chair, present Chair, Library Long-range Planning Subcommittee, Friends of Fondren Library Board, , 1999 present Board, Cohen House, , On Sabbatical, l988 89, , 2005 Rice Fund Council, Jameson Fellowship Committee, Rice Centennial Committee, Faculty Mentor, Rice Fellows Program, Editorial Advisory Committee, C. H. Permits, Inc., President, 1990 Donor Relations Committee, Rice Fund Council, Chair, Community Affairs Committee, Parking Committee, , Rice Parents Council, Director, Rice Self-Study; Co-chair of Self-Study Steering Committee, Library Long-range Planning Committee, Baker Institute Opening Committee, Co-chair, 1994 Alumni College Planning Committee, 1994 Katherine Fischer Fund Endowment Committee, Co-chair, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Search Committee, Graduate Council, Admission Committee, Athletic subcommittee, 1997 Rice: The Next Century [$500 million campaign] Leadership Committee Vice President for Enrollment Search Committee, Chair, 2004 Alumni College Inaugural Committee for President David Leebron, 2004 University Librarian, search committee, 2007 Ad hoc committee planning the university centennial celebration, Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Advisory Board, 2007 Faculty Advisory Committee, Rice/Baylor College of Medicine, Rice Centennial Commission, To the History Department Speaker Committee, Salary Committee, , 1996, Faculty Search Committee, and many times thereafter Graduate Committee, , , , Undergraduate Committee, Afro-American Culture Mellon Cluster, History Department Newsletter, Editor, PUBLICATIONS 4

5 Authored books The Great Revival, : The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972; paperback reprint with new preface, 1996). Religion in Antebellum Kentucky (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976; paperback reprint with new preface, 1995). Black Southerners, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983; paper edition, 1984). Excerpts reprinted in Carolyn Merchant, ed., Major Problems in American Environmental History (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1993), Rice University and the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (Houston: Rice University, 1991). A University So Conceived: A Brief History of Rice (Houston: Rice University, 1992; updated and revised edition, 1997; third enlarged and updated edition, 2006; fourth enlarged and expanded edition, 2012). The Irony of Southern Religion (New York and other cities: Peter Lang, 1994). The South Through Time: A History of an American Region (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1995; updated and revised 2 nd edition, 1999; updated and revised 3 rd ed., 2004). Co-author, Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People (Grand Rapids, MI., William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Second expanded edition, JEFFERSON: Architect of American Liberty (New York: Basic Books, 2017) Edited books America: The Middle Period. Essays in Honor of Bernard Mayo (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973). Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976). Dixie Dateline: A Journalistic Portrait of the Contemporary South (Houston: Rice University Studies, 1983). Introduction, The Dixie Difference, reprinted in Paul D. Escott and others, eds., Major Problems in the History of the American South (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999), vol. I, pp Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of S. W. Higginbotham. Coedited with Evelyn T. Nolen. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987; second printing, 1990). Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988; paper edition, 1990). Introduction reprinted in Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Controversial Issues in American History, 2 vols. (Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1991), vol. 1, pp Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History (Athens: University Press of Georgia, 2001). Blackwell Companion to the American South (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002; paperback edition, 2004). Edgar Odell Lovett and the Creation of Rice University (Houston: Rice Historical Society, 2001; revised edition, 2011). 5

6 Origins of the New South, , Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic, co-edited with Bethany L. Johnson (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003). Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Essays by Fifteen Historians (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004) The Inauguration of David Leebron: The Beginning of His Presidency (Houston: Rice University, 2006) Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours. Co-edited with Randal L. Hall (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010) Consulting Editor and Contributor to Star-Spangled Books... (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1972). Consulting Editor and introduction to Maryland Historical Prints (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976). Articles in books Evangelical Protestantism in the Old South: From Religious Dissent to Cultural Dominance, in Charles R. Wilson, ed., Religion in the South (Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 1985), Introduction to The American South: A Historical Bibliography, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-Clio Press, 1986). The Discovery of Southern Religious History, in John B. Boles and Evelyn T. Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), Historical Narrative in Rice University: A 75th Anniversary Portrait (Houston: Rice University Press, 1987). Slaves in Biracial Protestant Churches of the Old South, in Samuel S. Hill, ed., Varieties of Southern Religious Experience (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), Slave Culture, in Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988), Revivalism, Renewal, and Social Mediation in the Old South, in Randall Baumer and Edith L. Blumhofer, eds., Modern Christian Revivals: A Comparative Perspective (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), The Beginning of the Southern Bible Belt, in Kenneth Keulman, ed., Critical Moments in Religious History (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993), "The South: General Works," in Peter J. Parish, ed., Reader's Guide to American History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers, 1997), "Foreword," in Marion K. Barthelme, ed., Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997), xi xii. "Foreword: Revisiting the Plain Folk of the South," in Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., ed., Plain Folk of the South Revisited (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), ix xix. The Education of a University President: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Opening of the Rice Institute, in Boles, ed., Edgar Odell Lovett and the Creation of Rice University (Houston, 2000), Coming of Age in the Bible Belt, in Boles, ed., Autobiography and Southern Religious History (Athens: University Press of Georgia, 2001),

7 Foreword to Reprint Edition, in James A. Rogers, Richard Furman, Life and Legacy (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001), vi vii. The History of International University Bremen: From Idea to Reality, , in Raymond O. Wells, Jr., ed., The Founding of International University Bremen: Perspectives for the Twenty-first Century (Bremen, 2003), The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference Closing Remarks, in Paul E. Hoffman, ed., The Louisiana Purchase and Its Peoples: Perspectives from the New Orleans Conference (Lafayette, La.: Louisiana Historical Association and Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004), Foreword, in Patsy Cravens, Leavin a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), xi xiii. Preface, in Ronald M. Carden, William Montgomery Brown ( ): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist (Lewiston, NY: Edward Mellen Press, 2007). Introduction to Frank M. Owsley, Plain Folk of the Old South (updated edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008] [first published in 1949]), xix xxxix. Thinking About the South, in Daniel L. Letwin, ed., The American South: A Reader and Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), Encyclopedia articles Camp Meetings and Slave Religion, in Eerdman s Handbook of the History of Christianity in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Press, 1983). Henry Holcombe, in Dictionary of Georgia Biography (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983). Lorenzo Dow, Benedict Joseph Flaget, James McGready, and The Great Revival, in Encyclopedia of Southern Religion (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984). The Great Revival and Rice University, in Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). Great Revival in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Rice University in Texas Handbook (Austin, 1996). Robert Lewis Dabney, Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond, 2006). Rice University, Edgar Odell Lovett, and Journal of Southern History in New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Journal articles Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: A Historiographical Survey, Southern Humanities Review, 4 (Spring 1970), Henry Holcombe, A Southern Baptist Reformer in the Age of Jefferson, Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54 (Fall 1970), Jacob Abbott and the Rollo Books: New England Culture for Children, Journal of Popular Culture, 6 (Winter 1972), A Bicentennial History of Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, Virginia Baptist Register (November 1973),

8 Politics, Intrigue, and the Presidency: James McHenry to Bishop John Carroll, May 16, 1800, Maryland Historical Magazine, 69 (April 1974), John Hersey: Dissenting Theologian of Abolitionism, Perfectionism, and Millennialism, Methodist History, 14 (July 1976), Tension in a Slave Society: The Trial of the Reverend Jacob Gruber, Southern Studies, 18 (Summer 1979), Reprinted in Paul Finkelman, ed., Law, the Constitution, and Slavery (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989), Religion in the South: A Tradition Recovered, Maryland Historical Magazine, 77 (Winter 1982), As Others See Us: Travelers to Houston, , Heritage, 4 (Fall 1986), and The New Southern History, Mississippi Quarterly, 45 (Fall 1992), Turner, the Frontier, and the Study of Religion in America, Journal of the Early Republic, 13 (Summer 1993), The Art of Editing, Editing History (Spring 1994), 1 4. "Why Editing Matters," Social Science Quarterly, 77 (March 1996), Forum on Southern Religion, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 8 (Summer 1998), The Southern Way of Religion, Virginia Quarterly Review, 75 (Spring 1999), Reprinted in Catharine Cookson, ed., Religious/Freedom, Southern Style (Norfolk, Va., Virginia Wesleyan University, 2002), Edited papers Edited the microfilm publication and wrote the Guides for the Papers of William Wirt (23 pp. and 24 rolls of microfilm) and the Papers of John Pendleton Kennedy (30 pp. and 27 rolls of microfilm) for the National Historical Records and Publications Commission, 1971 and Reviews in summary Over two hundred reviews published in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, William and Mary Quarterly, Civil War History, Maryland Historical Magazine, New Jersey Historical Quarterly, Indiana Magazine of History and Biography, Eighteenth Century Studies, Historian, American Notes and Queries, Catholic Historical Review, Choice, Journal of Economic History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, North Carolina Historical Review, Social Science Quarterly, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Journal of the Early Republic, a Georgia Historical Quarterly, etc. 8

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University of Michigan, Ph.D., American History, University of Michigan, M.A., American History, 1995 Jonathan Daniel Wells, Ph. D. Professor of History in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and History Director, Residential College University of Michigan jonwells@umich.edu Office: B514