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Emily Suzanne Clark
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
Email: esclark@fsu.edu
Education:
2009-present
Ph.D. Candidate, Florida State University, Department of Religion
Degree Program: American Religious History
Dissertation: “Luminous Brothers and Sisters: Afro-Creoles and Spiritualism in New Orleans”
2009
M.A., University of Missouri, Department of Religious Studies
2007
B.A., Austin College, Magna Cum Laude in Religious Studies
Honors and Awards:
Graduate Assistantship; Florida State University: Fall 2009-present
Florida State University Dissertation Research Grant, 2012
P.E.O. Scholar chapter nominee, 2013-2014
American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association South Meeting Roger Rollin Award for the Best paper in American Studies: Fall 2010
Departmental Conference Travel Award: Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Distinguished Thesis Finalist; University of Missouri Graduate School: 2009
Teaching Assistantship; University of Missouri: Fall 2007-Spring 2009
George M. Landes Department Graduate Travel Fund; University of Missouri: Fall 2008
Lily Fellowship in Theology; Austin College: 2006
Research:
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Creoles, Catholics, and Color Lines,” invited panelist on a forum on black Catholicism, Journal of Africana Religions, in progress.
“New World, New Jerusalem, New Orleans: The Apocalyptic Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, accepted and forthcoming (2014 estimated publication). For a little teaser of this article, see this blog post on Morgan.
“Noble Drew Ali’s ‘Clean and Pure Nation’: The Moorish Science Temple, Identity, and Healing,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 16, No.3 (Feb. 2013): pp. 51-31.
“The Center for the Study of Southern Religion and Culture: A Historiographical Analysis,” Journal of Southern Religion, Volume 14 (2012). To listen to the JSR podcast about this article, click here.
“Of Catholics, Commies, and the Anti-Christ: Mapping American Social Borders Through Cold War Comic Books.” The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Vol. 21, Issue 3 (Fall), 2009.
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Cosmogram,” in The World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of Material Slave Live in the United States, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2010), pp. 157-160.
“Cross,” in The World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of Material Slave Live in the United States, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2010), pp. 170-171.
“Charles Manson,” in Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counter Culture (Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2011) pp. 392-393.
“Protest Music,” in Encyclopedia of the 1960s in Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counter Culture (Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2011), pp. 543-544.
“Russell Means,” in Encyclopedia of the in Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counter Culture (Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2011), pp. 412-413.
Book Reviews:
Review of Matthew S. Hedstrom, The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), in Textual Cultures, forthcoming.
Review of Arthur Remillard, Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era (The University of Georgia Press, 2011), in The Southern Historian,Volume 34, (Spring 2013): pp. 113-115.
Review of Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi, eds., Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 15, No. 1 (August 2011): pp. 126-127.
Review of Gwenn A. Miller, Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America (Cornell University Press, 2010), in Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Vol. 35, Issue 1 (March 2011): pp. 142-143.
Academic Presentations:
February 2013: “‘I am Alive and I am Awaiting your Arrival in the Land of Justice and Equality’: Spiritualism and Afro-creoles in New Orleans,” Florida State University Graduate Symposium
January 2013: “Catholicism and the Color Line,” in Black Catholicism and Black Religion in American Religious History, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting
March 2012: Participant, Roundtable on Apocalypticism and Millennialism in American Religion, Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Conference
November 2011: “Noble Drew Ali’s ‘Clean and Pure Nation’: The Moorish Manufacturing Corporation and Identity,” American Academy of Religion National Meeting
November 2011: “New World, New Jerusalem, New Orleans: The Apocalyptic Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan,” American Academy of Religion National Meeting
October 2011: “’ Use the Moorish Treatments and Get Well’: Moorish Science Temple Teas and Tonics,” American Studies Association National Meeting
October 2010: “The Romanticized Nostalgia of New Orleans Prostitution,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association South Meeting; Roger Rollin Award for best paper in American Studies
March 2010: “Sister Gertrude Morgan: Art, Preaching, Music, and Creative Agency,” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Conference
February 2010: “The ‘Sodom of the South’: New Orleans’ Prostitution District, Vice, Virtue, and Segregation,” Florida State University Graduate Symposium
March 2009: “It’s altogether too big a thing for me’: American Theatrical Retellings of the Bible from the Cold War,” American Academy of Religion Midwest Meeting
November 2008: “Of Catholics, Commies, and the Anti-Christ: The Use of the Apocalyptic Narrative in Cold War Comics,” American Academy of Religion National Meeting
March 2008: “What is a Real Hate Crime: Civil Rights Rhetoric, the Bible, and the Matthew Shepard Act,” American Academy of Religion Midwest Meeting
February 2008; “Better Catholic than Communist: An Anti-Catholic Comic Book and American Religious Identity,” Duke/UNC-Chapel Hill In Medias Religiones Conference
April 2007: “Liberation in the Slums: The Search for a Slum Theology,” Austin College Undergraduate Humanities Conference
Editing
December 2012 – present
Senior Assistant to the Editors; Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
Summer 2012
Contributor: The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Website Companion
January 2012 – December 2012
Assistant to the Editors: Book Reviews; Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
November 2011 – present
Managing Editor: Journal of Southern Religion
September 2011 – present
Contributor: Religion in American History blog
May 2010 – November 2011
Web and Copy Editor: Journal of Southern Religion
Teaching Experience:
Instructor
Religion in the U.S.; Florida State University: Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012
Introduction to World Religions; Florida State University: Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Teaching Assistant
Religion in the U.S.; Florida State University: Fall 2009
Major World Religions; University of Missouri: Spring 2009
Introduction to Religion; University of Missouri: Fall 2008
Religion in America Post-Civil War; University of Missouri: Spring 2008
Native American Religions; University of Missouri: Fall 2007
Introduction to Christian Theology; Austin College: Spring 2006
Academic and Community Service:
2012 – present
Steering Committee; Arts, Literature, and Religion Section; American Academy of Religion
December 2012 – present
Senior Assistant to the Editors; Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
January 2012 – December 2012
Assistant to the Editors: Book Reviews; Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
2010-present
Invited Lecturer on Religious Oppression in America, The Florida State University Center for Leadership and Civic Education
2012
Chair of Catering; 11th Annual Florida State University Religion Department Graduate Symposium
2011 – present
Managing Editor; Journal of Southern Religion
2010 – 2011
Web and Copy Editor; Journal of Southern Religion
2011
Director; 10th Annual Florida State University Religion Department Graduate Symposium
2010
Co-Chair of Paper Submissions and Scheduling; 9th Annual Florida State University Religion Department Graduate Symposium
2007-2009
Religious Studies Club Treasurer; University of Missouri
2007
Co-Director; Austin College Undergraduate Humanities Conference
2004 – 2006
Captain, NCAA Austin College Women’s Soccer; 2006/2007 Slats McCord Senior Athlete Award
