Curriculum Vitae Matthew S. Pehl Assistant Professor of History Augustana College 2001 S. Summit Ave. Madsen Center, 237 Sioux Falls, SD 57197 Office phone: 605-274-5335 Cell phone: 605-759-4475 Email: mpehl@augie.edu Education: PhD in American History, Brandeis University, 2009. Dissertation: Power in the Blood: Class, Culture, and Christianity in Industrial Detroit, 1910-1969. Committee chair: Jacqueline Jones (University of Texas-Austin) Second reader: Michael Willrich (Brandeis University) Third reader: Robert A. Orsi (Northwestern University) Qualifying Fields: Chronological field: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Thematic field: American religious history Non-US field: Modern Europe (post 1789). Language: Spanish Master of Arts in History, Utah State University, 2003. MA Thesis: Visions of Two Gods: Religion, Class, and the Italian Community of Carbon County, Utah, 1900-1930. Committee chair: David Rich Lewis (Utah State University) Second reader: Anne M. Butler (Utah State University; emerita) Third reader: Philip F. Notarianni (Utah State Historical Society) Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1997. Individually Designed Interdepartmental Major (IDIM) in religious studies, world folklore, and film studies. Teaching: (All syllabi available upon request) Fall 2010, Augustana College, Recent U.S. History An upper-level examination of U.S. history since the end of World War I.
Spring 2010, Augustana College, Methods and Philosophies of History This course introduces history majors and qualified non-majors to the major methodological and theoretical approaches to history, as well as an introduction to major trends in historiography. Spring 2010, Augustana College, The American Experience since 1877 This course serves as the second half of Augustana s U. S. History survey January 2010, Augustana College, Religion in American History and Culture This course, which meets for 3.5 hours per day every weekday during the four-week January interim, is an upper-level seminar exploring a variety of approaches to the study of religion in American history, society, and culture. Fall 2009, Augustana College, Western Civilization I This course provides a survey of western civilization from ancient Mesopotamia to the mid-seventeenth century. Fall 2009, Augustana College, The American Experience to 1877 This course serves as the first half of Augustana s U.S. History survey. Publications: Articles, Entries, and Compilations: Satan s Apostle, the Hell-Brewers of Detroit, and the UAW: Class, Christian Discourse, and Political Ideology in Detroit, 1929-1945 (submitted to the Journal of American History summer, 2010). The Remaking of the Catholic Working Class: Detroit, 1919-1941, Religion and American Culture 19, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 37-67. Wherever They Mention His Name : Ethnic Catholicism on an Industrial Island in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, ed. Roberto R. Treviño and Richard Francaviglia, College Station, TX: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press (2007). Winner of the 2009 Foik Award by the Texas Catholic Historical Society. Entries for Religion and Class ; Dorothy Day ; and Fundamentalism and Class in Class in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Robert E. Weir, Greenwood Press (2007). A List of Dissertations, (with Jesse T. Schreier) Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2002): 343-8.
Book reviews: The Revival of Labor Liberalism, by Andrew Battista, in Labor: Studies in Working- Class Histories of the Americas (forthcoming). Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, the Harvesting of the West, by Mark Wyman, in South Dakota History 40 (Summer 2010): 201. Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies, by Sean McCloud, in Symposia: The Center for the Study of Religion Graduate Student Journal 1 (Spring 2009). Gospel Tracks through Texas: The Mission of the Chapel Car Good Will by Wilma Rugh Taylor, in Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Winter 2006): 552. Unpublished Paper: Assimilating Anarchism: Ethnicity, Ideology, and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. This paper, which draws upon the significant primary collections in the Boston Public Library, was written as part of a semester-long research project at Brandeis University. Using the Sacco-Vanzetti case as an example, it argues that assimilation is not principally the story of immigrant adaptation to America, but of immigrant cultures transformative impact upon American culture itself. While in America, Sacco and Vanzetti cannily assimilated their rhetoric to reflect American traditions of radicalism. But conversely and more importantly, American leftists assimilated the previously-marginalized ideological world of European anarchists. By assimilating Italian anarchism and representing its ideas as quintessentially American, native-born leftists sought to convince American workers to place ideological principle above ethnic identity, thus foreshadowing the ethically-polyglot CIO unions of the 1930s. Honors & Awards: Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, June 2010 Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University, 2003-2007 Co-winner of the 2004 Webb-Smith Essay Competition, University of Texas at Arlington. S. George Ellsworth Editorial Fellowship, Western Historical Quarterly, 2001-2003. As the Ellsworth fellow, I read and reviewed article submissions for the editor, double-checked all article footnotes, proofread copy with the editor, maintained contact with authors of both articles and book reviews, and composed quarterly lists of recent articles and annual list of recent dissertations in the history of the American West. I also attended annual meetings of the Western Historical Association conferences.
Presentations: The Class of Clergy, at North American Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 23, 2009 Religious Experience in Working-Class Detroit, 1919-1939, at Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium, University of Iowa, April 7, 2007. When Is an Ethnoreligion Just a Religion? at Under Construction: Histories, Identities, and Representation in the Studies of Religion, Columbia University, March 31 st, 2005. Employment: 2005-present: Senior Research Assistant for the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, Robert D. Putnam and Thomas Sanders, chairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. My work consists of researching, writing, and presenting analyses of historical literature. I also participate in regular group conferences, presenting my own research and commenting upon the work of other researchers in the group. I was originally hired to work on Professor Putnam s study of ethnic/racial diversity and social capital in America, but for the last three years I have worked on reports for a forthcoming book, coauthored by Professor Putnam and David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame, examining contemporary American religion. Currently titled American Grace, Putnam and Campbell s book is based upon a major new survey of American religion titled Faith Matters, as well as numerous ethnographies of local congregations; my work has helped the authors place their contemporary findings in a historical context. Major historiographic reports (averaging about 30 pages per report) that I have written include: Religion in the Unites States and United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis Diversity and Social Capital in American Labor Unions Commercialized Leisure and Social Capital in American Ethnic History Catholicism, Ethnicity, and Assimilation Major Themes in American Religious History Religion and Class in American History Religion and Politics in American History Success and Self-Help in American Religious History Ethnicity, Urban Change, and Religion in the Twentieth Century Religion in the 1960s Secularism in American History and Historiography African American Religious Historiography Latino/a Religious Historiography A Review of Contemporary Popular Titles Religious Innovators in American History
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