American Examples: “An incubator for the next generation of scholars.”

American Examples

Richard Kent Evans (PhD in North American Religions from Temple University, 2018) has written his first book, titled MOVE: An American Religion, which is a religious history of MOVE. He is currently working on a history of “religious madness” from the late seventeenth century to the present. He currently teaches at The College of New Jersey and is a Research Associate at Haverford College.

We asked him to explain what he gained from his participation in the first American Examples workshop last year.

Picture of Richard Kent Evans. He is wearing a winter coat and scarf.

American Examples was a fantastic experience. I got the chance to meet several emerging scholars in the field of American Religion working in a variety of methodologies. We were allowed to engage with each other’s work on a deep level. Our meetings together were inspiring, unpretentious, and immensely helpful. American Examples feels like a group of friends who went through graduate school together. We’re a cohort now. I’m excited to watch this program become an incubator for the next generation of scholars of American Religion.

 

 

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