David Sehat
{{short description|American academic}}
{{Infobox person
| name = David Sehat
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| nationality =
| other_names =
| known_for =
| education =
| alma mater =
| employer = Georgia State University
| occupation = Historian
| title =
| term =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| party =
| boards =
| spouse =
| children =
| parents =
| relatives =
}}
David Sehat is an American academic. He is a professor of American intellectual and cultural history at Georgia State University.{{cite web|title=David Sehat|url=http://history.gsu.edu/profile/david-sehat-3/|website=History|publisher=Georgia State University|accessdate=February 12, 2018}} He was the 2017-18 John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute and Balliol College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Professor David Sehat|url=https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/professor-david-sehat|website=Balliol College|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=February 12, 2018}} He is the author of three books. He won the Organization of American Historians's 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for The Myth of American Religious Freedom.{{cite web|title=Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winners|url=http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/frederick-jackson-turner-award/oah-frederick-jackson-turner-award-winners/|website=Organization of American Historians|accessdate=February 12, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106185339/http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/frederick-jackson-turner-award/oah-frederick-jackson-turner-award-winners/|url-status=dead}}
Works
- Sehat, David. (2007) "The civilizing mission of Booker T. Washington." The Journal of Southern History 73.2 (2007): 323-362. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/27649400 online]
- Sehat, David. (2007) "The American moral establishment: Religion and liberalism in the nineteenth century'" (PhD dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007) [https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/8910jv74q online]
- Sehat, David. (2008) "Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch" The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7.3 (2008): 325-352.
- {{cite book|last1=Sehat|first1=David|title=The Myth of American Religious Freedom|url=https://archive.org/details/mythofamericanre00seha|url-access=registration|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780190247218|oclc=925843779}}
- {{cite book|last1=Sehat|first1=David|title=The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible|date=2015|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=9781476779782|oclc=913337448}}
- Sehat, David. "Thomas Jefferson and Us." The William and Mary Quarterly 74.4 (2017): 771-776.
- Sehat, David. (2020) "Political atheism: the secularization and liberalization of American public life." Modern Intellectual History 17.1 (2020): 249-277. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2A3F8AB92492443AAFE4972E1553A3EA/S1479244318000136a.pdf/political_atheism_the_secularization_and_liberalization_of_american_public_life.pdf online]
- {{cite book|last1=Sehat|first1=David|title=This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism|date=2022|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=9780300265620|oclc=1291318008}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=LZZXEAAAQBAJ&dq=David+sehat&pg=PP1 online]
References
{{Reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sehat, David}}
Category:Georgia State University faculty
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American male non-fiction writers
{{US-historian-stub}}