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CARA LEA BURNIDGE Department of Philosophy and World Religions

University of Northern Iowa cara.burnidge@uni.edu

APPOINTMENTS 2014-present Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Philosophy and World Religions,

University of Northern Iowa 2013-2014 Teaching Faculty I, Department of Religion, Florida State University 2012-2014 Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Humanities, & Theatre, Florida Agriculture

and Mechanical University 2011-2014 Assistant to the Editors, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D., Religion, Florida State University 2009 M.A., Religion, Florida State University 2006 B.A., History, Washburn University SCHOLARSHIP Monograph “A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson and the Great War of the Protestant Establishment” (manuscript under contract, University of Chicago Press) Edited Volume Area Editor, America and the World, 1898-1945, in America and the World, 1776 to the Present, Dictionary of American History Supplement, eds. Edward Blum, Cara Burnidge, Emily Conroy- Krutz, David Kinkela (Scribner’s) Journal Articles “The Business of Church and State: Social Christianity in Woodrow Wilson’s White House,” Forum: Religion in American Public Life: Presidential Expressions of Christianity, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 82, no. 3 (September 2013): 659-666. “Following in His Steps: Kansas, the Kingdom of God, and Charles M. Sheldon's Homiletic Novels” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (Spring 2012), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2012/burnidge.htm. Book Chapters “Religious Influences on U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Jon Butler (New York: Oxford University Press) (peer reviewed and submitted) “Religious Language and the League of Nations,” in American Churches and the First World War, ed. Gordon Heath (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick) (under contract)

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Academic Conference Presentations 2015 “Regulating Religions of the World at the End of Empire: Or the Value of Religion

in Early Twentieth Century Diplomacy,” The Security of the State and the Regulation of Religion, Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Group, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting

2015 Conceptualizing American Empire: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches,

Religion and U.S. Empire Seminar, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting

2014 “Religion as Right: U.S.-Japanese Constructions of ‘Religion’ and ‘Secular’ in

International Law,” Religion, Law, and Culture Group, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting

2014 Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations: A Roundtable on the State of the Study

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annual Meeting 2014 “By the Hand of God Who Led Us”: The Senate’s Crusade Against the League of

Nations,” Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in 20th Century America, John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington University, St. Louis

2014 “The Product and Purpose of God’s Mind”: Debating Religious Rhetoric in the

Covenant of the League of Nations,” Placing Faith in American Global Policy, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting

2014 “‘Forever a Bone of Contention’: Debating Christian Notions of Peace during

World War I,” Panel: America’s Wars: Revealing Divisions and Transforming Beliefs, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting

2013 “Love is a Battlefield: Negotiating Muslim-American Femininity,” Arts, Literature

and Religion Section, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting 2013 “The Materiality of a Hyphen: Muslim-American Women in Popular Culture,”

Resistance, Liberation, and Female Power in American Culture, AAR- SE/ SECSOR, Annual Meeting

2013 “Negotiating God’s Peace: The League of Nations and the Protestant

Establishment,” Panel: The Christian Origins of the American Century, American Historical Association, Annual Meeting [panel organizer]

2013 “Religion and Woodrow Wilson’s White House,” Presidents at Prayer, American

Society of Church History Winter Meeting 2012 “Champions of Mankind: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and the Protestant

Establishment,” Secularism and Protestant Identity in the early 20th century, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting

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2011 “Memories of Progress, Memories of Racial (In)Equality: The Religious- Historical Narrative of Charles M. Sheldon’s The Redemption of Freetown,” Religion, Culture, and the Arts Section, AAR-SE/SECSOR, Annual Meeting

2010 “Muhammad was a Punk rocker”: The Taqwacores and Muslim-American

Identity Politics,” Religion and Politics Section, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting

2009 “Freedom, Conquest, & Redemption: Kansas as the Nation’s ‘Spiritual Tuning

Fork,’” Religion in the American West Seminar, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting

2008 “In His Steps: Nineteenth-Century Kansans Shaping Their Identity Around

Charles M. Sheldon’s Social Gospel Novel,” Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium

2007 “Allowed to Speak, Difficult to Ignore: Methodist Women Shape the Temperance

Movement,” Western Social Science Association, Annual Meeting 2006 “Culture Walk” Workshop co-facilitator, Zayed University’s Women As Global

Leaders, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Public Lectures 2016 “The Bible, the Church, and the Ballot Box: How Religion Shaped Elizabeth Cady

Stanton's Fight for Women's Suffrage,” Women’s History Month Lecture, Department of History, University of Northern Iowa

2014 “Does a President’s Faith Shape Policy?: Woodrow Wilson as a Case Study for

Today,” cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy and World Religions and the Department of History, University of Northern Iowa

Book Reviews Luca Castagna. A Bridge Across the Ocean: The United States and the Holy See Between the Two World Wars. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 2014. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture (Forthcoming).

Steven Green. Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding. New York: Oxford, 2015. The Journal of Religion (Forthcoming). Rebecca Alpert. Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies. New York: Columbia, 2015. The Journal of Religion (Forthcoming). Aaron Belkin. Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001, Journal of American Culture 37, no. 2 (June 2014): 218-219. Timothy Miller, Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World, Novo Religio 17, no. 4 (May 2014): 119-120.

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Richard Landes, ed., The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Nova Religio 16, no. 4 (2013): 141-142, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.141. Lila Corwin Berman, Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity, Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 4, no. 1 (2013): 117-119, http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol4/iss1/7. James A. Forbes, Jr., Whose Gospel?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 24, no. 3 (2012): 469-470. Susan K. Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902, Past Tense 1, no. 1 (2012): 136-138. Cynthia Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography. Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews, http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33118, (2012).

Randall Balmer, The Making of Evangelicalism. Symposia 3 (2011), http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/article/view/14425/11468. Nathaniel Deutsch, Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Islam, Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 2.1 (2010): 111-113. Encyclopedia Articles “Religion and Foreign Policy,” Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, ed. Philip DiMare (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [under review]). “Woodrow Wilson,” Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, ed. Philip DiMare (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [under review]). “Ecumenicalism,” Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:328-330. “Hindu Nationalism,” Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:517-518. “Islamic Reform,” Encyclopedia of Global Religions, eds. Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011), I:591-594. “Protestant Liberalism,” Encyclopedia of Religion in America, eds. Charles Lippy and Peter Williams (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010), III:1782-90. TEACHING Courses Taught University of Northern Iowa Spring 2015 Great Living Traditions: Christianity

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Fall 2015 Religion and Politics Spring 2015 Religion in America 2014-present Religions of the World Florida State University 2013-2014 Introduction to World Religions 2011 Islam in the Modern World 2009-2011 Religion in U.S. History 2008-2009 Introduction to World Religions Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University 2012-2014 Introduction to Religion Tallahassee Community College 2010-2011 United States History I: to 1865 Training and Pedagogical Development Fall 2015 Fall Faculty Workshop: Improving Students' Critical Thinking Skills—Strategies for

the Classroom Facilitator Spring 2015 All Paws on Deck: An Interactive Introduction to the CAT Classroom Spring 2015 SMART Board Session Fall 2014 Advisor Center Workshop FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS 2015 University of Northern Iowa, Summer Short Term (4-week) Research Fellowship 2014 Fellow, Wilsonianism and the Legacies of the First World War Summer Institute,

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2013-2015 Fellow, Religion and US Empire Seminar, Kripke Center for the Study of Religion

and Society, Creighton University 2012 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Finalist, Florida State University 2011 White House Historical Association Research Grant 2010 Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Florida State University Foundation 2008-2013 KONIAG Academic Scholar, KONIAG Education Foundation 2008-2009 Alfred M. Landon Historical Research Grant, Kansas State Historical Society 2007-2013 Graduate Assistantship, Department of Religion, Florida State University

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Academic Societies 2015-2015 Secretary, Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2013-2014 Co-chair, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Conference 2011-present Religion, Culture, and the Arts Section Co-Chair, AAR-SE/SECSOR Print Scholarship 2013-present Reviewer, Roman & Littlefield 2012-present Reviewer, Memphis Theological Journal 2012-present Reviewer, The Middle Ground Journal

Digital Scholarship 2014-present Editor, Religion in American History, http://usreligion.blogspot.com 2014-present Editor, Religion in the American West Blog, http://relamwest.blogspot.com 2012-present Contributor, Religion in American History blog 2011-present Contributor, Religion in the American West blog 2009-2010 News Editor, Religion Compass, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers UNIVERSITY SERVICE University of Northern Iowa 2015 Department of Philosophy and World Religions Advisory Board 2015 Move Crew 2015 Alumni Day Committee 2014 Department of Philosophy and World Religions Outreach Committee 2014 Department of Philosophy and World Religions Student Guide Committee 2014 Religion Curriculum Committee Member 2014 Applied Ethics and Humanities Instructor Search Committee Member Florida State University 2014 Liberal Arts & Sciences Curriculum Review Faculty Consultant 2011 Werkmeister Humanities Reading Room Docent, Florida State University 2010 Co-Coordinator, Florida State University AAR Reception 2009 Moderator, “Sights on Gender-Blindness: A Roundtable Discussion on

Incorporating Gender into Scholarship,” Religion Department Graduate Student Symposium

2007-2009 Director, Religion Department Graduate Student Symposium University of Kansas 2007 Co-Creator, Service Learning Matchmakers: Pairing Faculty and Community

Partners 2007 “Service-Learning Matchmakers: Innovative Strategies for Connecting University

Faculty to Community Agencies” (Team presentation), Developing Citizens through Leadership and Civic Engagement: Fifth Annual Multi-State Campus Compact Conference

2007 “Fulfilling Whose Mission? Determining Faculty, Student, and Community Wants and Needs for Service Learning” (Team presentation), Texas Campus Compact’s National Conference on Civic Engagement

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COMMUNITY SERVICE 2013-present Mentor, Koniag Education Foundation 2009-2011 Peer-to-Peer Mentor, Koniag Education Foundation 2006-2007 AmeriCorps*VISTA, Center for Service Learning LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES French, Reading Knowledge German, Reading Knowledge MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion American Historical Association American Society of Church History Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy Society for U.S. Intellectual Historians References are available upon request