American StudiesDr Randall J. Stephens
PhD, MA
Reader in History (American Studies); Programme Leader in American Studies
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Contact details: Department of Humanities Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 327 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 243 7848 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 randall.stephens@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Randall Stephens was appointed Reader in History/American Studies at Northumbria in 2012. Born and raised in Kansas, Stephens writes and teaches about the American South, religion in the US, and popular music. He is editor of the history magazine Historically Speaking and associate editor of the journal Fides et Historia. Stephens is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008) and The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, co-authored with Karl Giberson (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). In spring 2012 he was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway. He has also written for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Atlantic blog, and the Christian Century.
Qualifications
Ph.D., American History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
MA, History, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
MA, Theological Studies, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO
Teaching Interests
Modern US History, 19th Century America, the US South, Religion in the US, American Popular Music
Research Interests
American religious history, United States South, Pentecostalism, American popular music, cultural history, conservatism
Randall is currently working on A Primary Source Reader on Rock Music, with Brian Ward.
Research Students
Randall welcomes enquiries from students wishing to pursue postgraduate work in areas conencted to his research interests.
Affiliations and Memberships
American Historical Association
Historical Society
Conference on Faith and History
Southern Historical Association
Awards and Fellowships
2008: John Templeton Foundation grant for The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, co-authored with Karl Giberson
2002-03: Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture grant for The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Funded by the Lilly Endowment)
Select Publications
Books:
[with Karl Giberson] The Anointed: American Evangelical Experts (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).
[as bibliographic editor], The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, eds. Paul Harvey and Edward Blum (Columbia University Press, 2011).
[as editor] Recent Themes in American Religious History, Historians in Conversation Series (University of South Carolina Press, 2009).
The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Chapters and Articles:
'"Ohio villains" and "pretenders to new revelations": Wesleyan Abolitionists in North Carolina and Virginia, 1847-1857', in Festschrift for Bertram Wyatt-Brown (University Press of Florida, 2011).
'The Holiness/Pentecostal/Charismatic Extension of the Wesleyan Tradition', in The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Sam Jones' Own Book, 1886. With a New Introduction by Randall J. Stephens. Southern Classics Series (University of South Carolina Press, 2009).
'"There is Magic in Print": The Holiness Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern
Pentecostalism', in Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Southern Religion and Culture
(University of Kentucky Press, 2008).
'Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect' in Interpreting Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future (University of Alabama Press, 2008).
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