David Gray Hackett Associate Professor Department of Religion 122 Anderson Hall University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 (352) 273-2929 DHackett@ufl.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. 1980-1986 Emory University M.Div. 1979-1980 Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California 1977-1979 Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Ed.M. 1973-1974 Harvard University, Education B.A. 1972-1973 Hampshire College 1969-1972 Amherst College FIELDS OF STUDY American Religious History Sociology of Religion Religion in the Americas FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Teacher of the Year, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida (2011-2012) University of Florida, Honors College, $1,000 award to teach a one credit honors course (2010-2011) University of Florida, Scholarship Enhancement Award (2009) University of Florida, Grant to direct the New Directions in Religious Studies Lecture Series (2003-2004) Delton L. Scudder Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1999-2000) University of Florida, Scholarship Enhancement Award (1999) Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota, Resident Scholar (1997-1998) Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism in American Culture, Fellowship (1997-1998) Yale University, Department of Religious Studies, Visiting Scholar (May 1997) Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion in America, Fellow (1993-1994) Princeton University, Center of Theological Inquiry, Member (1993-1994) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1993-1994) Billy Graham Center Travel Grant (1993) University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, T.I.P. Teaching Award (1993 and 1998) NEH, Summer Seminar "The New Gender Scholarship: Women and Men in U.S. History" (1992) Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism in American Culture, Summer Fellowship (1992) American Society of Church History, Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize (1990) Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Research Awards (1988 and 1991) Honorary Faculty Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Florida (1988) University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research Grants (1987, 1988, 1993)
Scholarships Foundation Fellowship (1984-1985) Emory University Fellowship (1980-1983) Center for the Study of New Religious Movements Research Grant (1979) Hampshire College Fellowship (1973) EMPLOYMENT 2004-2008 Chair, Department of Religion, University of Florida Summer 2000 Visiting Professor, London Study Program (Florida State University) 1999-2000 Delton L. Scudder Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida 1997-1998 Resident Scholar, Institute for Cultural and Ecumenical Research, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota 1993-1994 Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton Theological Seminary Spring 1992 1991-present Visiting Professor, London Study Program (Florida State University) Associate Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida Affiliate Appointments: Women's Studies 1986-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida 1981-1983 Teaching Fellow, Candler School of Theology, Emory University 1978-1980 Research Associate, Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in America, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES American Academy of Religion: Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion (2003-2005); Outside Evaluator of the Millennium Studies Group (2002); Chair, North American Religions Section (1993-1997); Steering Committee, North American Religions Section (1992-1993); Steering Committee, Religion and Social Sciences Section (1990-1992) Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Chair, Publications Committee (2012-Present) Member, Publications Committee (2011-2012) Member, JSSR Editor Search Committee (2001-2002) Member, Committee on Organizational Relations (1999-2001) Chair, International Travel Award Committee (1996-1998) Executive Council (1993-1996) Chair, Distinguished Article Award Committee (1991-1992) Association for the Sociology of Religion: Executive Council (1990-1992) American Society of Church History: Membership Committee (1992-1994) DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES (1886-present) Department: Department Chair Undergraduate Coordinator Steering Committee Graduate Committee Chair Buddhism Search Committee Chair, "History of Christianity/Judaism" Search Committee Chair American Religious History Search Committee
Chair, Teaching Improvement Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee Chair, 10 Year Review Committee Chair, Renovations Committee Chair, PhD. Design Committee College: Elected President, College Assembly Chair, Humanities Council Chair, Ruth McQuown Women's Scholarship Committee Executive Committee, American Studies Program Executive Committee, Women's Studies Fulbright Committee Research and Development Award Committee Faculty Study Abroad Award Committee NEH Summer Stipend Committee Humanities Seminar Steering Committee University: Elected member of Faculty Senate Member Senate Committee to Implement Shared Governance in CLAS University Task Force on Advising Advising Evaluation Task Force Faculty Advisor to Catholic Student Union Honors Program Advisor Spirituality and Health Sciences Steering Committee PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AS COMMENTATOR, SEMINAR LEADER, and CONSULTANT State Department, United States-China Education Trust, Seminar Leader, Fudan University, Shanghai, China May 11-17, 2013. National Endowment for the Humanities College and University Fellowship Selection Committee (2007) Amherst College, Scholar in Residence (March, 2003) Florida Humanities Council, Seminar Leader, Finding A Common Path (1999-2003) National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Program Selection Committee (2002) Louisville Institute, Dissertation Award Selection Committee (1999) National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Consultant, The New Men's Ministries (September 1998) Yale University, Department of Religious Studies, Pew Program, Commentator (May 1997) University of Chicago, Religion, Culture and Family Project, Consultant (1994-1996) Notre Dame University, Engendering Catholicism Conference, Seminar Leader (Fall 1995) PROFESSIONAL EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES University of California Press, Consulting Editor (1997-2007) Syracuse University Press: Editorial Board, "Women, Gender, and Religion" Series (1994-1998) Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Editorial Board, "History Project," (1995-1998) Concilium: International Advisory Board, (1992-2002) Manuscript Referee for academic presses and journals including: Rutgers University Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Illinois Press, Routledge, and Church History, the Journal of American History, Religion and American Culture, Sociology of Religion the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and The Journal of Religion.
PUBLICATIONS Books That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, Forthcoming March, 2014. The Silent Dialogue: Letters to a Trappist Abbot. New York: Continuum, 1996. Religion and American Culture: A Reader. Editor. New York: Routledge and Sons, 1995. Second Edition, 2003. The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York 1652-1836. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Awarded the 1990 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize by the American Society of Church History. Articles Promise Keepers. Encyclopedia of Religion and the South. Second Edition. Mercer University Press, Forthcoming. "The Prince Hall Masons and the African-American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918. Revised version of Church History article (below) in All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry, Edited by Peter P. Hinks and Stephen Kantrowitz (Cornell University Press, 2013). American Religion and Class. Religion and American Culture, 15:1 (Winter, 2005), 2-8. "The Prince Hall Masons and the African-American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918." Church History, 69:4 (December, 2000), 770-802. Catholic Men s Ministries: An Introductory Report. Committee on Marriage and the Family, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, July, 1999, 1-10. The Media and Promise Keepers. CLAS Notes (University of Florida), January, 1999, 7-8. "Is Football a Religion?" Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council XXI:2 (Fall 1998), 50. "Freemasonry." The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998), 276-277. Robert Wuthnow, editor. Washington: "Promise Keepers and Culture Wars," Religion and the News, I:1 (Summer, 1998), 4-5, 18. Review Essay of Robert A. Orsi's "Thank-You, St. Jude." U.S. Catholic Historian, 15:1 (Fall, 1997), 127-129. "Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1930." Religion and American Culture, 5:2 (June, 1995), 128-157.
"Culture and Social Order in American History" in David Bromley ed. Religion and the Social Order:New Developments in Theory and Research I (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1991), 73-90. "Rodney Stark and the Sociology of American Religious History." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29:3 (September 1990), 372-376. "Toward a Post-Liberal Church." Sisters Today 61:2 (October 1989), 91-94. "Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27:4 (December 1988), 461-474. "The Social Origins of Nationalism: Albany, New York, 1754-1835." Journal of Social History 21:4 (June, 1988), 659-682. "The Most Segregated Institution: Correlates of Interracial Church Participation," with C. Kirk Hadaway and James Fogle Miller. Review of Religious Research 25:3 (March 1984), 204-219. The New Religions: An Annotated Introductory Bibliography. 3rd Edition. Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in America (April 1981). "The Christian - Buddhist Encounter: A Select Bibliography." Editor. Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in America (April 1979), 1-15. "Lay Catholics at the Seminary." America (September 16, 1978), 158-160. "On Lay Monasticism." Editor. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 9:2 (1977), 129-150. SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS Richard Ian Kimball, Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). Reviewed in Church History (2005). Sandy Dwayne Martin, For God and Race: The Religious and Political leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood (South Carolina, 1999). Reviewed in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38:2 (June 1999), 318-320. David D. Hall, ed. Lived Religion in America: Toward A History of Practice (Princeton, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of Religion 79:2 (April 1999), 358-359. Donald W. Mitchell and James Wiseman O.S.B. eds. The Gethsemani Encounter: A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Christian Monastics (Continuum, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies 19 (1999), 232-235. Thomas A. Tweed, Our Lady of Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (Oxford, 1997). Reviewed in The American Historical Review (February, 1999), 223-224. Martin E. Marty, The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good (Harvard, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66:3 (Fall, 1998), 689-691.
Robert A. Orsi, Thank-You St. Jude: Women s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Lost Causes (Yale, 1996). Reviewed in the U.S. Catholic Historian 15:4 (Fall 1997), 127-129. Julius H. Rubin, Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America (Oxford, 1994). Reviewed in The Journal of Social History 29:2 (Winter 1995), 439-441. Robert S. Ellwood, The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern (Rutgers, 1994). Reviewed in Christian Century 112:4 (August 16-23, 1995), 791-793. Other reviews in The Journal of American History, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, The Journal of Religious Research, and The International Journal of Comparative Religion. SELECTED INVITED ADDRESSES The Uses of Freemasonry for the Center for Religion and Politics Public Lecture, Danforth Center for Religion and Politics, Washington University, St. Louis, March 28, 2013. Society of Secrets: Freemasonry and American Culture, Homer J. Armstrong lecture in Religion, Kalamazoo College, October 10, 2010 The Post-College Spiritual Journey,,. Amherst College, May 30, 2008 The Promise and Pitfalls of Teaching Comparative Religion, University of Chicago, Divinity School, February 20, 2003 "The Gendering of American Religious History," Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, October, 1997. "Constructing Frontiers" and "Contrasting Regions" Pew Fellows Conference, Yale University, May 1997. "Wild Men and Promise Keepers: Men and American Protestantism in Historical Perspective," Harvard University, September 1996. "The Family and Religion in American History," Religion, Culture and Family Project, University of Chicago, September 1994. "Faith and Experience in Writing American Religious History," Conference on the State of American Catholic History, Princeton University, June 1994. "Gender and Theology in the Nineteenth Century," the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, April 1994. "Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1920," the Religious Institutions and Society Colloquia Series, Yale University, March 1994. INVITED PRESENTATIONS The Post-College Spiritual Journey, Amherst College, May 30, 2008 The Gainesville Catholic Worker turns Four, Gainesville Catholic Worker House, February 15, 2008 Christianity and Buddhism: The Silent Encounter, Amherst College, March 28, 2003 The Promise and Pitfalls of Teaching Comparative Religion, University of Chicago, Divinity School, February 20, 2003
Spirituality and Health, Conference on Complementary Medicine, Tallahassee Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute, March 24, 2000. In Search of a Common Path, Florida Humanities Council Summer Seminar - Tampa, Florida June 25-29, 1999, October 18-22, 2000 Spirituality and Health Care, presented with Dr. Allen Neims to the Complementary Medicine Conference in Primary Care sponsored by the Suwanee River Area Health Education Center, October 7-8, 1999 "Sports and Religion in American Culture," Florida Humanities Council, July, 1998. "Fraternal Orders and the Re-Imagining of American Religious History," Union Theological Seminary, New York City, April, 1998. "Women in the Churches, Men in the Lodges?" Spiritual Frontiers Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, February, 1998. Fraternal Orders in American Religious History, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Spring, 1998. "Robert Bellah's Sociology of Religion: Toward An Holistic Vision," annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1997. "The Gendering of American Religious History," Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, October, 1997. "The Silent Dialogue: Spiritual Journeys Across Traditions," Jacksonville, Florida Interfaith Council, May 1997. "Constructing Frontiers" and "Contrasting Regions," Pew Fellows Conference, Yale University, May 1997. "Fraternal Orders and American Religious History," Drew Theological School, March 1997. The Many Meanings of the American Revolution: A Look at the Dutch and Yankee Community of Albany, New York 1754-1836, Daughters of the American Revolution, December 1996. "Wild Men and Promise Keepers: Men and American Protestantism in Historical Perspective," Conference on Changes and Continuities in American Religious History, Harvard University, September 1996. Also presented as an emergency replacement to the American Academy of Religion, November 1996. "Are We All Hungry Ghosts?" Response to Robert Wuthnow's Sharing the Journey, Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1995. American "Gender and Religion Across Race, Class, and Denominational Lines," University of Florida, March 1995. Department of History,
"The Family and Religion in American History," presented to the Religion, Culture and Family Project, University of Chicago, September 1994. " Why Don t You Enter the Craft? : The Historian and the Subject Conference on the State of American Catholic History, Princeton University, June 1994. "Jonathan Blanchard, the National Christian Association and Late Nineteenth Century Anti-Masonry," New York Grand Lodge of Free And Accepted Masons, April 1994. "Gender and Theology in the Nineteenth Century," Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, April 1994. "Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1920," Religious Institutions and Society Colloquia Series, Yale University, March 1994. Gender and Religion in the late Nineteenth Century, Center for the Study of Religion in America, Princeton University, September 1993. Author Meets Critics: The Rude Hand of Innovation - Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1632-1836, response to critics, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October, 1991. The Challenge to Use Our Gifts Wisely, Keynote Address to the Golden Key Society, University of Florida, Fall 1988. Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect, Keynote Address at the American Studies Banquet, University of Florida, September 1987. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Freemasonry and the Colonial Public Sphere. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, January 6, 2012. The Many Christianities of the American Past. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8, 2011 Perspectives on Religion in the Americas, annual meeting of the American Academy of Reliigion, Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008. Women, Religion, and Submission, annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, Atlanta, Georgia January 6, 2007 Freemasonry and American Religious History, the International Conference on Freemasonry, Edinburgh, Scotland May 25-27, 2007 Manhood, Race, and Christianity, 1880-1930, comment at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2004
Robert Orsi s Approach to Religious Studies, panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November, 2002 Grant Wacker s Heaven Below, author meets critics session at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Madeline Southard s Contribution to Women s Ecclesial Rights, response given to a panel on Southard s work at the annual meeting of the American Society for Church History, January, 2001 George Marsden s Christian Scholarship, panel presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November, 2000 "Freemasonry, Gender, and Race in the Late Nineteenth Century," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 1997. "After the Revivals: The Resurgence of Freemasonry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1996. "The Author's Voice and the Writing of American Religion," presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1995. "Rendering the Diversity of Gendered Experience," seminar led at the Engendering American Catholic Studies Conference, Notre Dame University, September 1995. "Prince Hall Freemasonry: Race, Class, Region and Gender in late Nineteenth Century Protestant Culture," presented to the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, November 1993. "The Church and the Lodge: Gender Tensions, Region, and Theology in Late Nineteenth Century Protestant Culture," presented to the Canadian American Studies Association, October 1993. "Gender and Social Class in Late Nineteenth Century American Protestantism," presented to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1991. "Women and Men in Nineteenth Century American Religious Culture," presented to the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, July 1991. "Rodney Stark's Sociology of American Religious History," presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 1989. "Culture and Social Order in American History" presented to the Association for the Sociology of Religion, August 1989. "Culture and Social Order in Early Nineteenth Century Albany, New York," Conference on New York History, April 1989. presented to the "Cultural Submission and Cultural Dominance: Anglo-Dutch Conflict in Colonial Albany, New York," presented to the Eastern Sociological Association, November 1988.
"Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect," presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 1987. "The Social Sources of New School Presbyterian Revivals in Albany, New York, 1828-1836," presented to The American Society of Church History, January 1986. "The Social Origins of Civil Religion in Albany, New York," presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 1985. Service Related Writing Wrote and edited seven issues of Connections, the Department of Religion Newsletter, from 2004-2008 including The 60 th Anniversary of the Department of Religion (1946-2006) Fall, 2006 pp. 2-6. Learn About Religions April 6, 2007 Alligator Guest Column September, 2013