Jennifer Graber
{{Short description|American historian}}
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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2023)
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| thesis_title = Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797-1860
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| thesis_year = 2006
| doctoral_advisor = Grant Wacker
| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = History of religion in the United States
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Jennifer Graber is an American historian. Originally a classical singer while studying at Goshen College, she later shifted towards studying history during her graduate studies, before becoming the Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe & Cherry Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Graber |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/jg53287 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=UT Austin College of Liberal Arts}} A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written on the history of religion in the United States: The Furnace of Affliction (2011) and Gods of Indian Country (2018).
Biography
A native of Goshen, Indiana, Graber got her Bachelor of Arts degree (1995) in Music at Goshen College, where she performed as an opera singer at the university, including at their centennial concert in 1995.{{Cite news |last=Kronemyer |first=Bob |date=1994-02-03 |title='Figaro' requires stamina |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/520416258/ |work=The South Bend Tribune |pages=D3 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1995-03-19 |title=Concert features Anabaptist martyr |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/520664700/ |work=The South Bend Tribune |pages=C4 |via=Newspapers.com}} She later obtained her Master of Theological Studies degree (1999) at the Candler School of Theology, and Doctor of Philosophy degree (2006) in American religious history at Duke University; her doctoral dissertation Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797-1860 was supervised by Grant Wacker.{{Cite web |title=JENNIFER GRABER |url=https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/5137/Graber%20CV.pdf |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=UT Austin College of Liberal Arts}}
In 2006, Graber became Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Wooster. In 2012, she moved to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and became Associate Professor of Religious Studies there. On November 5, 2019, she was promoted to Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe & Cherry Gray Professor.{{Cite news |date=2019-11-05 |title=Congratulations Dr. Jen Graber! |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/news/congratulations-dr-jen-graber |access-date=2024-12-19 |work=UT Austin College of Liberal Arts}} She became the Associate Director of UT Austin's Native American and Indigenous Studies Program in 2019, as well as the Associate Chair of UT Austin's Department of Religious Studies in 2022.
Graber has authored two books on the history of religion in the United States: The Furnace of Affliction (2011) and Gods of Indian Country (2018).{{Cite web |title=The Furnace of Affliction {{!}} Jennifer Graber |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9781469622255/the-furnace-of-affliction/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=University of North Carolina Press}}{{Cite web |title=The Gods of Indian Country - Jennifer Graber |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-gods-of-indian-country-9780190279615?cc=us&lang=en& |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Oxford University Press}} She has also taught classes in religion in the United States, as well as freedom of religion. She collaborated with the Kiowa Tribal Museum to create the Kiowa Calendar Project.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://kiowacalendars.org/about |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=The Kiowa Calendar Project}} In 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion.{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Graber |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/jennifer-graber/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}
Bibliography
- The Furnace of Affliction (2011){{Cite journal |last=Abruzzo |first=Margaret |date=2011 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510158 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=826 |doi=10.1093/jahist/jar376 |issn=0021-8723 |jstor=41510158}}{{Cite journal |last=Hanley |first=Mark Y. |date=2012 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23310794 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=117 |issue=2 |pages=525 |doi=10.1086/ahr.117.2.525 |issn=0002-8762 |jstor=23310794}}{{Cite journal |last=Heuser |first=Frederick J. |date=2013 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24463324 |journal=The Journal of Presbyterian History |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=44 |issn=1521-9216 |jstor=24463324}}{{Cite journal |last=Lazerow |first=Jama |date=2011 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24708235 |journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=680–681 |doi=10.1093/jcs/csr094 |issn=0021-969X |jstor=24708235}}{{Cite journal |last=Roberts |first=Kyle |date=2012 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41410845 |journal=Church History |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=218–220 |doi=10.1017/S000964071200039X |issn=0009-6407 |jstor=41410845}}{{Cite journal |last=Rose |first=Anne C. |date=2011 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons & Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23387467 |journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society |volume=109 |issue=2 |pages=215–217 |issn=0023-0243 |jstor=23387467}}{{Cite journal |last=Wiewora |first=Nathaniel |date=2012 |title=Review of The Furnace of Affliction: Prison and Religion in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24455796 |journal=The Historian |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=105–106 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2011.00314_14.x |issn=0018-2370 |jstor=24455796}}
- Gods of Indian Country (2018){{Cite web |last=Hamm |first=Thomas D. |date=2021 |title=The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/793301 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Quaker History |pages=89–90 |via=Project Muse}}{{Cite journal |last=Hermann |first=Adrian |date=2020 |title=Relating North American Indigenous History and the Study of Religion: Introducing a Review Symposium on Jennifer Graber's The Gods of Indian Country and Pamela Klassen's The Story of Radio Mind |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48594769 |journal=Numen |volume=67 |issue=2/3 |pages=281–288 |doi=10.1163/15685276-12341576 |issn=0029-5973 |jstor=48594769}}{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Sylvester A. |date=2020 |title=Religion and Empire in Transnational Perspective: a Response to Pamela Klassen's Story of Radio Mind and Jennifer Graber's Gods of Indian Country |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48594771 |journal=Numen |volume=67 |issue=2/3 |pages=298–302 |doi=10.1163/15685276-12341578 |issn=0029-5973 |jstor=48594771}}{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Joel W. |date=2021-09-06 |title=The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/126/2/799/6365005 |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=799–780 |doi=10.1093/ahr/rhab257 |issn=0002-8762 |via=Oxford Academic}}
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