Rachel McBride Lindsey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office Hours
W: 1-2 p.m. and by appointment (lindseyrm.youcanbook.me)
Courses Taught
Theological Foundations; Arch City Religion; #GreaterGood: Religious Freedom and Social Justice in America; Religion, Art, and Politics; American Christianities
Education
Ph.D. in American Religion, Princeton University, 2012
M.A. in American Religion, Princeton University, 2009
B.A. in Religious Studies, Missouri State University, 2006
Research Interests
- Visual and material cultures of American religion
- Religion and American public life
- Local history and culture
- American religious history
Publications and Media Placements
Books
A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (UNC Press, 2017)
Religion and Digital Humanities: Material Religion, co-edited with Emily Clark, DeGruyter (in progress)
Handbook in Material Religion, co-edited with S. Brent Plate and Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Routledge (in progress)
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
鈥淒ocumentary Photography and the Visual Politics of Race and Religion,鈥� Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History, eds. Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming March 2018)
""'The Mirror of All Perfection': Jesus and the Strongman in America, 1893-1920,"" American Quarterly 68 (March 2016), 23-47
鈥淧hotography and Religion,鈥� MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Volume 6: Material Religion, vol. ed. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, series eds. Jeffrey Kripal, April DeConick, and Anthony Pinn (MacMillan, 2016)
鈥溾�楾his Barbarous Practice鈥�: Southern Churchwomen in the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1942,鈥� Journal of Southern Religion 16 (2014)
鈥溾�橲een and Read of Men鈥�: Biblical Text and the Living Epistles of Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement,"" Journal of Africana Religions 2.3 (2014), 347-378
鈥淏odies on Display鈥� and 鈥淗aunting the Streets of Cairo: Visual Habits in Nineteenth-century Holy Land Photography,鈥� Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.2 (2014), 2-4, 4-11
Digital Projects
鈥淐ollections: A Communion of Shadows,鈥� Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Yale
University, mavcor.yale.edu (under construction).
Arch City Religion, www.archcityreligion.org. Teaching project mapping religious spaces, objects, and communities in the St. Louis metro with students at 91女神 and Webster University.
Other Professional Writing
鈥溾�機annot Tell Aught But the Truth鈥�: Photography and Birth of a Nation (1915),鈥� Sacred
Matters: Religious Currents in Culture (May 2016).
鈥淎gents of a Fuller Revelation,鈥� Web blog post. Material Religions (2015),
鈥淐arte de visite Photograph Album,鈥� Object Narrative, in Conversations: An Online Journal of the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (2014), .
鈥淧assages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby鈥檚 Family Museum,鈥� Religion & Politics (September 2014)
鈥淧ulled into the Maze鈥�: 12 Years a Slave (2013), Religion & Politics (February 2014)
鈥淎 Response to 鈥楨videntiary Boundaries and Improper Interventions: Evidence, Implications, and Illegitimacy in American Religious Studies,鈥欌�� Religion Bulletin: The Blogging Portal of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, July 22, 2013.
Honors and Awards
- Grace May Tilton Award in American Art, Princeton University Program in American Studies, 2015 (book subvention)
- Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2011-2012
- Teaching Transcript, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University, awarded June 2011
- Religion and Culture Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2010-2011
- Program in American Studies Research Prize, Princeton University, 2008-2009
- President鈥檚 Fellowship, Princeton University, 2006-2011
Professional Organizations and Associations
American Academy of Religion, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association