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

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 77251 Telephone: office (713) 348-5546; home (713) 664-9038; cell (713) 826-6535 Fax: (713) 348-4383 E-mail: Marital status: boles@rice.edu 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, 1969 72 Associate Professor, Towson State College, 1972 74 Professor, Towson State University, 1974 78 NEH Fellow in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 1976 77 Visiting Associate Professor, Rice University, 1977 78 Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1978 80 Acting Associate Chairman, Tulane University, 1980 81 Professor of History, Tulane University, 1980 81 Professor of History, Rice University, 1981 Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair in History, Rice University, 1991 97 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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Editing of scholarly journals Book Review Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine, 1972 74 Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine, December 1974 December 1977 Editorial Board, Maryland Historical Magazine, 1978 87 Associate Editor, Acting Editor, Journal of Southern History, 1977 78 Editorial Board, Journal of Southern History, 1978 82 Associate Editor, Journal of Southern History, 1981 83 Editor, Journal of Southern History, 1983 2013; Editor emeritus, 2013 Other positions Co-associate Director, Center for the History of Leadership Institutions, Rice University, 1981 85 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, 2014. 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, 2011. Board of Directors, The Melanchthon Institute, 1994 2017. 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, 1966 68 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1968 69 Towson State College Special Achievement Citation, 1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1976 77 Louisiana Committee for the Humanities Grant, 1980 2

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, 2016 2017 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Southern Historical Association Southern Association for Women s History Houston Philosophical Society (President, 1990 91) 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 2018. SERVICE To Rice University University Speaker Committee, 1982 86 Alumni Publications Committee, 1984 92 Will Rice College Associate, 1982 Challenge Grant Planning Committee, 1983 3

Panel Chair, Self-Study Committee, 1983 84 Vice President for External Affairs, Search Committee, 1986 Library Committee 1985 87, 1998, Chair, 1987 88. 1999 present Chair, Library Long-range Planning Subcommittee, 1986 88 Friends of Fondren Library Board, 1986 88, 1999 present Board, Cohen House, 1987 88, 1989 93 On Sabbatical, l988 89, 1997 98, 2005 Rice Fund Council, 1989 2002 Jameson Fellowship Committee, 1989 93 Rice Centennial Committee, 1989 91 Faculty Mentor, Rice Fellows Program, 1989 91 Editorial Advisory Committee, 1990 92 C. H. Permits, Inc., President, 1990 Donor Relations Committee, Rice Fund Council, Chair, 1991 93 Community Affairs Committee, 1991 93 Parking Committee, 1991 94, 1999 2000 Rice Parents Council, 1992 95 Director, Rice Self-Study; Co-chair of Self-Study Steering Committee, 1993 95 Library Long-range Planning Committee, 1994 97 Baker Institute Opening Committee, Co-chair, 1994 Alumni College Planning Committee, 1994 Katherine Fischer Fund Endowment Committee, Co-chair, 1995 96 Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Search Committee, 1995 96 Graduate Council, 1996 1997 Admission Committee, Athletic subcommittee, 1997 Rice: The Next Century [$500 million campaign] Leadership Committee Vice President for Enrollment Search Committee, 1998 99 Chair, 2004 Alumni College Inaugural Committee for President David Leebron, 2004 University Librarian, search committee, 2007 Ad hoc committee planning the university centennial celebration, 2007 2012 Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Advisory Board, 2007 Faculty Advisory Committee, Rice/Baylor College of Medicine, 2008 2009 Rice Centennial Commission, 2009-2012 To the History Department Speaker Committee, 1981 86 Salary Committee, 1981 85, 1996, 1997 1999 Faculty Search Committee, 1982 84 and many times thereafter Graduate Committee, 1985-86, 1989 91, 1993 97, 1998 2015. Undergraduate Committee, 1986. 2016 Afro-American Culture Mellon Cluster, 1986 88 History Department Newsletter, Editor, 1991 92 PUBLICATIONS 4

Authored books The Great Revival, 1787 1805: 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, 1619 1869 (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), 163 68. 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., 2005. University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Second expanded edition, 2012. 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. 19 28. 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, 1740 1870 (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. 277 87. 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

Origins of the New South, 1877 1913, 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), 13 34. 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), 510 48. 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), 95 114. Slave Culture, in Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988), 163 71. 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), 60 83. The Beginning of the Southern Bible Belt, in Kenneth Keulman, ed., Critical Moments in Religious History (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993), 119 40. "The South: General Works," in Peter J. Parish, ed., Reader's Guide to American History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers, 1997), 657 58. "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), 1 49. Coming of Age in the Bible Belt, in Boles, ed., Autobiography and Southern Religious History (Athens: University Press of Georgia, 2001), 111 30. 6

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, 1997 2001, in Raymond O. Wells, Jr., ed., The Founding of International University Bremen: Perspectives for the Twenty-first Century (Bremen, 2003), 112 58. 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), 249 60. 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 (1855 1937): 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), 4 23. 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), 163 77. Henry Holcombe, A Southern Baptist Reformer in the Age of Jefferson, Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54 (Fall 1970), 381 407. Jacob Abbott and the Rollo Books: New England Culture for Children, Journal of Popular Culture, 6 (Winter 1972), 507 28. A Bicentennial History of Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, Virginia Baptist Register (November 1973), 1 27. 7

Politics, Intrigue, and the Presidency: James McHenry to Bishop John Carroll, May 16, 1800, Maryland Historical Magazine, 69 (April 1974), 64 85. John Hersey: Dissenting Theologian of Abolitionism, Perfectionism, and Millennialism, Methodist History, 14 (July 1976), 215 34. Tension in a Slave Society: The Trial of the Reverend Jacob Gruber, Southern Studies, 18 (Summer 1979), 179 98. Reprinted in Paul Finkelman, ed., Law, the Constitution, and Slavery (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989), 1 19. Religion in the South: A Tradition Recovered, Maryland Historical Magazine, 77 (Winter 1982), 388 401. As Others See Us: Travelers to Houston, 1836 1984, Heritage, 4 (Fall 1986), 15 19 and 42 45. The New Southern History, Mississippi Quarterly, 45 (Fall 1992), 369 83. Turner, the Frontier, and the Study of Religion in America, Journal of the Early Republic, 13 (Summer 1993), 205 16. The Art of Editing, Editing History (Spring 1994), 1 4. "Why Editing Matters," Social Science Quarterly, 77 (March 1996), 198 203. Forum on Southern Religion, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 8 (Summer 1998), 166 77. The Southern Way of Religion, Virginia Quarterly Review, 75 (Spring 1999), 226 47. Reprinted in Catharine Cookson, ed., Religious/Freedom, Southern Style (Norfolk, Va., Virginia Wesleyan University, 2002), 12 26. 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 1972. 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