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Michigan State University, Associate Professor (2018-Present)
Michigan State University, Assistant Professor (2014-2018)
Michigan State University, Visiting Assistant Professor (2012-2014)
Michigan State University, Instructor (2009-2011)
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow (2008-2009)
Michigan State University, Assistant Professor (2014-2018)
Michigan State University, Visiting Assistant Professor (2012-2014)
Michigan State University, Instructor (2009-2011)
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow (2008-2009)
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
PhD, History (United States), May 2012.
Columbia University, New York, NY
AB, cum laude, May 2006. Major: History; Concentration: Women’s and Gender Studies
PhD, History (United States), May 2012.
Columbia University, New York, NY
AB, cum laude, May 2006. Major: History; Concentration: Women’s and Gender Studies
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
2020-2021 Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University
2019 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize, American Society for Church History
2018 China Residency, Organization of American Historians and Zhejiang University
2017-2018 HARP Development Grant, Michigan State University
2016-2017 Schlesinger Library Research Grant
2011-2012 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women
2009-2010 American Republic Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University
2009 Merit Research Fellowship, Harvard University (declined)
2020-2021 Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University
2019 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize, American Society for Church History
2018 China Residency, Organization of American Historians and Zhejiang University
2017-2018 HARP Development Grant, Michigan State University
2016-2017 Schlesinger Library Research Grant
2011-2012 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women
2009-2010 American Republic Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University
2009 Merit Research Fellowship, Harvard University (declined)
BOOKS
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Foreign Relations in Nineteenth-Century America. Cornell University Press, March 15, 2024.
The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edited with Michael A. Blaakman and Noelani Arista. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic. United States in the World Series, Cornell University Press, 2015. (Paperback: August 2018)
The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edited with Michael A. Blaakman and Noelani Arista. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic. United States in the World Series, Cornell University Press, 2015. (Paperback: August 2018)
Selected: ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
2024 “Before Woman’s Work for Woman,” in Missionary Interests, ed. Christopher Jones and David Golding (Forthcoming: Cornell)
2022 “What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?: Foreign Relations, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century,” Diplomatic History (June 2022)
2022 “The Meaning of Missionary Labor: Evaluating 19th Century Global Missions in the Early 20th Century,” Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and US Empire, ed. Melani McAlister, Axel Schäfer, and John Corrigan (University of North Carolina Press).
2022 “For Young People: Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” in Ideologies and US Foreign Policy, ed. Christopher Nichols and David Milne (Columbia University Press)
2021 “The Vast Kingdom of God,” in Rosemarie Zagarri and Eliga Gould, eds. “Forum: Situating the United States in Vast Early America” William and Mary Quarterly (Spring 2021)
2021 “Foreign Missions and Strategy, Foreign Missions as Strategy” in Rethinking American Grand Strategy, eds. Christopher Nichols, Andrew Preston, and Elizabeth Borgwardt (Oxford University Press)
2019 “The Early Republic in a World of Empire” in A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, ed. Christopher Dietrich (Wiley)
2018 “The Forgotten Wife: Roxanna Nott and Missionary Conceptions of Marriage,” Journal of Early American Studies, Special Issue on the Global Turn Volume 16, No. 1 (Winter 2018)
2018 “The Hierarchy of Heathenism: Missionaries Map the Globe,” Diplomatic History Volume 42, No. 1 (Winter 2018), 55-71
2014 “Engaged in the Same Glorious Cause:’ Anglo-American Connections in the American Missionary Entrance into India, 1790-1815.” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 34, No.1 (Spring 2014).
2022 “What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?: Foreign Relations, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century,” Diplomatic History (June 2022)
2022 “The Meaning of Missionary Labor: Evaluating 19th Century Global Missions in the Early 20th Century,” Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and US Empire, ed. Melani McAlister, Axel Schäfer, and John Corrigan (University of North Carolina Press).
2022 “For Young People: Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” in Ideologies and US Foreign Policy, ed. Christopher Nichols and David Milne (Columbia University Press)
2021 “The Vast Kingdom of God,” in Rosemarie Zagarri and Eliga Gould, eds. “Forum: Situating the United States in Vast Early America” William and Mary Quarterly (Spring 2021)
2021 “Foreign Missions and Strategy, Foreign Missions as Strategy” in Rethinking American Grand Strategy, eds. Christopher Nichols, Andrew Preston, and Elizabeth Borgwardt (Oxford University Press)
2019 “The Early Republic in a World of Empire” in A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, Colonial Era to the Present, ed. Christopher Dietrich (Wiley)
2018 “The Forgotten Wife: Roxanna Nott and Missionary Conceptions of Marriage,” Journal of Early American Studies, Special Issue on the Global Turn Volume 16, No. 1 (Winter 2018)
2018 “The Hierarchy of Heathenism: Missionaries Map the Globe,” Diplomatic History Volume 42, No. 1 (Winter 2018), 55-71
2014 “Engaged in the Same Glorious Cause:’ Anglo-American Connections in the American Missionary Entrance into India, 1790-1815.” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 34, No.1 (Spring 2014).
Select INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
“Missionary Diplomacy,” Foreign Policy Seminary at the University of Connecticut (September 30, 2022)
Who, What, When, Why, and How? Religion and US Global Power,” Global Religion and American World-Making Symposium, Notre Dame (April 8-9, 2022)
“Missionary Diplomacy,” Idaho State University (Virtual Lecture, March 17, 2022)
“Christian Imperialism in the American Colonization of Liberia” for Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (Virtual Lecture, May 2021)
"Missionary Intelligence: Local Knowledge and Claims of Expertise," Space, Time, and Religion in Early America Conference at Princeton University (February 2020)
“Before Woman’s Work for Woman,” Missionary Interests Conference at the Church History Library, Salt Lake City (November 2019)
“For Young People,” Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference at Oregon State University (May 2019)
“’What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?’: Politics and Foreign Missions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Newberry Seminary on Religion and Culture in the Americas (October 2019)
“’What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?’: Reconsidering American Missionary Diplomacy after the Boxer Uprising,” Global Faith and Worldly Power: Evangelical Encounters with American Empire, Obama Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany (October 2019)
“Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic,” Peking University, China (June 2018)
Missionary Ventures and Religious Associations,” Symposium for the Cambridge History of America and the World, 1812-1900, University of Missouri (May 2018)
“Benevolent Womanhood at Home and Abroad,” Conference Celebration of the Work of Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University (October 2017)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Relations in Nineteenth-Century America,” American History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London (April 2017)
“Missions and Strategy, Missions as Strategy” at Rethinking Grand Strategy, Oregon State University (May 2016)
“Christian Imperialism,” at Barnard College, Department of Religion (April 2016)
Mini-Conference on the “Global Turn” at the Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History, Brigham Young University (January 2016)
“Christian Imperialism: The Vision and Realities of Global American Missions,” Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 Symposium, Indiana University (October 2014)
Religion and US Empire Workshop, Creighton University (October 2013, October 2014)
Who, What, When, Why, and How? Religion and US Global Power,” Global Religion and American World-Making Symposium, Notre Dame (April 8-9, 2022)
“Missionary Diplomacy,” Idaho State University (Virtual Lecture, March 17, 2022)
“Christian Imperialism in the American Colonization of Liberia” for Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (Virtual Lecture, May 2021)
"Missionary Intelligence: Local Knowledge and Claims of Expertise," Space, Time, and Religion in Early America Conference at Princeton University (February 2020)
“Before Woman’s Work for Woman,” Missionary Interests Conference at the Church History Library, Salt Lake City (November 2019)
“For Young People,” Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference at Oregon State University (May 2019)
“’What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?’: Politics and Foreign Missions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Newberry Seminary on Religion and Culture in the Americas (October 2019)
“’What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?’: Reconsidering American Missionary Diplomacy after the Boxer Uprising,” Global Faith and Worldly Power: Evangelical Encounters with American Empire, Obama Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany (October 2019)
“Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic,” Peking University, China (June 2018)
Missionary Ventures and Religious Associations,” Symposium for the Cambridge History of America and the World, 1812-1900, University of Missouri (May 2018)
“Benevolent Womanhood at Home and Abroad,” Conference Celebration of the Work of Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University (October 2017)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Relations in Nineteenth-Century America,” American History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London (April 2017)
“Missions and Strategy, Missions as Strategy” at Rethinking Grand Strategy, Oregon State University (May 2016)
“Christian Imperialism,” at Barnard College, Department of Religion (April 2016)
Mini-Conference on the “Global Turn” at the Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History, Brigham Young University (January 2016)
“Christian Imperialism: The Vision and Realities of Global American Missions,” Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 Symposium, Indiana University (October 2014)
Religion and US Empire Workshop, Creighton University (October 2013, October 2014)
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Roundtable “Thinking with John Quincy Adams 200 Years after the Monroe Doctrine,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (June, 2023)
Roundtable on Ideology in US Foreign Relations, USIH (November, 2022)
Roundtable “Religion and Foreign Relations: ‘Good Works’ in Progress and the State of the Field” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, (June 2021)
“Converting the World, Knowing the World: Claims of Missionary Expertise in the 19thCentury,” American Society of Church History (January 2020)
“I Love to Stand Before a Map of the World,” The Power of Maps and the Power of Borders Conference, American Philosophical Society (October 2019)
“Before Woman’s Work for Woman: Gender and Missionary Applications in the Early 19thCentury,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2019)
Roundtable: “It’s Not Midcareer Malaise: Strategies for the Second Book and Beyond,” American Historical Association (January 2019)
“’The Political Values of an American Missionary’: Making Sense of the Missionary-Consul Connection in the 19thCentury,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (June 2018)
“Women and Foreign Missions in the ABCFM and the London Missionary Society,” Religion and Politics in Early America Conference, Society of Early Americanists and Danforth Center, St. Louis (March 2018)
“Missionaries Write the World: Reception of Foreign Missionary Texts in 19th Century America,” American Society for Church History Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 2018)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Information in the Early Republic,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (June 2017)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Engagement in the Early Republic” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Ann Arbor (June 2017)
Roundtable, “New Directions in American Religion and Internationalism,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, jointly sponsored by the American Society for Church History and Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Denver (January 2017)
“Abigail Bradley Hyde’s Christian Approach to Anti-Slavery,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Palo Alto, CA (October 2016)
Roundtable, “Interventions: The Global Early American Republic,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, San Diego (June 2016)
“The Forgotten Wife: Gender, Authority, and Missionary Marriage,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Providence (April 2016)
Roundtable, “Imperialists, Internationalists, and Spies: New Directions for Missionary Studies,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta (January 2016)
Roundtable, “Christian Nationalism in American History,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Washington DC (October 2015)
Roundtable, “How does a Republic Become an Empire?” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Raleigh (July 2015)
Workshop, “The Maturing Blogosphere of Early America,” Joint Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Society of Early Americanists Conference, Chicago (June 2015)
“Mapping Martin Marty’s Righteous Empire: Missionaries, Missions, and Where Protestant Empire Happens,” American Academy of Religion, San Diego (November 2014)
“Christian Imperialism: The Vision and Realities of Global American Missions,” Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 Symposium, Indiana University (October 2014)
“Creating a Hierarchy of Heathenism: American Missionaries Map the World, 1790-1840,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (July 2014)
Roundtable, “Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations: A Roundtable on the State of the Study,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY (June 2014)
Roundtable, “Americans and Liberia: Rethinking Race, Religion, and Colonization,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta (April 2014)
“God Cannot Be Pleased with Slavery: Sectional Politics and the Global Mission of the American Board,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (November 2013)
“The ‘American colony’ at Singapore: Missionary Visions and Failures,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (July 2013)
“‘The Greatest Blessing or the Greatest Hindrance’: British and American Perspectives on Missionary Marriage,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Johns Hopkins University (June 2013)
“An Evangelical Map of the World: Foreign Missions and the Hierarchy of Heathenism, 1790-1840,” Religion in American Life Conference, King’s College, London (February 2013)
“Missionaries and Colonization: The American Board in Liberia,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (July 2012)
“American Missionaries, Empire, and Colonization: The ABCFM Missions to South Asia and West Africa, 1812-1844,” History of Religion Conference, Boston College (March 2012)
“Anglo-American Connections in the American Missionary Entrance to India, 1790-1815,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (July 2011)
“Missions and Empire: American Foreign Missionaries in India, 1810-1830,” Building an American Empire Conference, Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University (May 2011)
“Place, Race, and Faith: The Selection of American Missionary Locations in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Places and Displacement: Graduate Conference in International History, Columbia University, New York (April 2011)
“Balancing Duties: Marriage and World Mission,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY (July 2010)
“Educating the 'Heathen': A Comparative Study of American Mission Schools, 1810-1850,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2009)
“Viewing American Foreign Missionaries in an Imperial Context, Or, Why Burma?” Transnational American Studies Symposium, University College Dublin (July 2007) [as Emily Conroy]
CONFERENCE COMMENTARY
"To Trade or Not to Trade: A Discussion about Writing the History of the Early American Republic for Popular Audiences," Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Cleveland (July 2018)
“Funding Mission: The Contextual Economics of the American Protestant Enterprise,” American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 2018)
"Religion and Nationalism in Early America,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Dallas (October 2017)
Co-Chair, “How Notto Write Your Second Book,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (July 2017)
“Christian Mission, US Power, and Domestic and Foreign Publics from the Early Republic to the Cold War,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (June 2017)
Chair and Comment, “A Bicentennial Retrospective on the American Colonization Society and its Efforts in Liberia,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, New Haven (July 2016)
Comment, “American Women Missionaries, Personal Relationships, and Social Reform,” American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, Atlanta (January 2016)
Chair and comment, “Missions,” Religion, Health and Body Conference, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2014)
Comment, “History without Borders” International Graduate Historical Studies Conference, Central Michigan University (April 2013)
Roundtable on Ideology in US Foreign Relations, USIH (November, 2022)
Roundtable “Religion and Foreign Relations: ‘Good Works’ in Progress and the State of the Field” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, (June 2021)
“Converting the World, Knowing the World: Claims of Missionary Expertise in the 19thCentury,” American Society of Church History (January 2020)
“I Love to Stand Before a Map of the World,” The Power of Maps and the Power of Borders Conference, American Philosophical Society (October 2019)
“Before Woman’s Work for Woman: Gender and Missionary Applications in the Early 19thCentury,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2019)
Roundtable: “It’s Not Midcareer Malaise: Strategies for the Second Book and Beyond,” American Historical Association (January 2019)
“’The Political Values of an American Missionary’: Making Sense of the Missionary-Consul Connection in the 19thCentury,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (June 2018)
“Women and Foreign Missions in the ABCFM and the London Missionary Society,” Religion and Politics in Early America Conference, Society of Early Americanists and Danforth Center, St. Louis (March 2018)
“Missionaries Write the World: Reception of Foreign Missionary Texts in 19th Century America,” American Society for Church History Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 2018)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Information in the Early Republic,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (June 2017)
“Foreign Missions and Foreign Engagement in the Early Republic” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Ann Arbor (June 2017)
Roundtable, “New Directions in American Religion and Internationalism,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, jointly sponsored by the American Society for Church History and Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Denver (January 2017)
“Abigail Bradley Hyde’s Christian Approach to Anti-Slavery,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Palo Alto, CA (October 2016)
Roundtable, “Interventions: The Global Early American Republic,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, San Diego (June 2016)
“The Forgotten Wife: Gender, Authority, and Missionary Marriage,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Providence (April 2016)
Roundtable, “Imperialists, Internationalists, and Spies: New Directions for Missionary Studies,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta (January 2016)
Roundtable, “Christian Nationalism in American History,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Washington DC (October 2015)
Roundtable, “How does a Republic Become an Empire?” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Raleigh (July 2015)
Workshop, “The Maturing Blogosphere of Early America,” Joint Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Society of Early Americanists Conference, Chicago (June 2015)
“Mapping Martin Marty’s Righteous Empire: Missionaries, Missions, and Where Protestant Empire Happens,” American Academy of Religion, San Diego (November 2014)
“Christian Imperialism: The Vision and Realities of Global American Missions,” Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 Symposium, Indiana University (October 2014)
“Creating a Hierarchy of Heathenism: American Missionaries Map the World, 1790-1840,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (July 2014)
Roundtable, “Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations: A Roundtable on the State of the Study,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY (June 2014)
Roundtable, “Americans and Liberia: Rethinking Race, Religion, and Colonization,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta (April 2014)
“God Cannot Be Pleased with Slavery: Sectional Politics and the Global Mission of the American Board,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (November 2013)
“The ‘American colony’ at Singapore: Missionary Visions and Failures,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (July 2013)
“‘The Greatest Blessing or the Greatest Hindrance’: British and American Perspectives on Missionary Marriage,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Johns Hopkins University (June 2013)
“An Evangelical Map of the World: Foreign Missions and the Hierarchy of Heathenism, 1790-1840,” Religion in American Life Conference, King’s College, London (February 2013)
“Missionaries and Colonization: The American Board in Liberia,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (July 2012)
“American Missionaries, Empire, and Colonization: The ABCFM Missions to South Asia and West Africa, 1812-1844,” History of Religion Conference, Boston College (March 2012)
“Anglo-American Connections in the American Missionary Entrance to India, 1790-1815,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (July 2011)
“Missions and Empire: American Foreign Missionaries in India, 1810-1830,” Building an American Empire Conference, Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University (May 2011)
“Place, Race, and Faith: The Selection of American Missionary Locations in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Places and Displacement: Graduate Conference in International History, Columbia University, New York (April 2011)
“Balancing Duties: Marriage and World Mission,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY (July 2010)
“Educating the 'Heathen': A Comparative Study of American Mission Schools, 1810-1850,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2009)
“Viewing American Foreign Missionaries in an Imperial Context, Or, Why Burma?” Transnational American Studies Symposium, University College Dublin (July 2007) [as Emily Conroy]
CONFERENCE COMMENTARY
"To Trade or Not to Trade: A Discussion about Writing the History of the Early American Republic for Popular Audiences," Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Cleveland (July 2018)
“Funding Mission: The Contextual Economics of the American Protestant Enterprise,” American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 2018)
"Religion and Nationalism in Early America,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Dallas (October 2017)
Co-Chair, “How Notto Write Your Second Book,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (July 2017)
“Christian Mission, US Power, and Domestic and Foreign Publics from the Early Republic to the Cold War,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (June 2017)
Chair and Comment, “A Bicentennial Retrospective on the American Colonization Society and its Efforts in Liberia,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, New Haven (July 2016)
Comment, “American Women Missionaries, Personal Relationships, and Social Reform,” American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, Atlanta (January 2016)
Chair and comment, “Missions,” Religion, Health and Body Conference, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2014)
Comment, “History without Borders” International Graduate Historical Studies Conference, Central Michigan University (April 2013)
BLOG and Podcast Appearances
“Ironclad Commitments: Religious Freedom and Missionary Diplomacy,” The Panorama Blog (for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) (November 11, 2019)
“Teach My Book: Christian Imperialism,”Teaching US History (April 18, 2019)
"Were Christian Missionaries 'Foundational' to the United States?" Washington Post (October 18, 2018)
"Roundtable: Missionary Intelligence and Americans' Mental Map of the World," Society of U.S. Intellectual History Blog (July 12, 2017)
“Five Questions with Emily Conroy-Krutz,” Religion in American History (November 18, 2015)
“Over 200 Years, How Has the Mission Map Changed,” in Then and Now, The Christian Century (November 9, 2015)
“The Author’s Corner with Emily Conroy-Krutz,” The Way of Improvement Leads Home (September 14, 2015)
The President's Inbox Podcast: Ideology in US Foreign Policy (2022)
New Books in History Podcast: “Companion to US Foreign Relations” (2021)
Age of Jackson Podcast: Converting the World in the Early American Republic Episode 43 (2018)
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast: Christian Imperialism Episode 047 (2015)
“Teach My Book: Christian Imperialism,”Teaching US History (April 18, 2019)
"Were Christian Missionaries 'Foundational' to the United States?" Washington Post (October 18, 2018)
"Roundtable: Missionary Intelligence and Americans' Mental Map of the World," Society of U.S. Intellectual History Blog (July 12, 2017)
“Five Questions with Emily Conroy-Krutz,” Religion in American History (November 18, 2015)
“Over 200 Years, How Has the Mission Map Changed,” in Then and Now, The Christian Century (November 9, 2015)
“The Author’s Corner with Emily Conroy-Krutz,” The Way of Improvement Leads Home (September 14, 2015)
The President's Inbox Podcast: Ideology in US Foreign Policy (2022)
New Books in History Podcast: “Companion to US Foreign Relations” (2021)
Age of Jackson Podcast: Converting the World in the Early American Republic Episode 43 (2018)
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast: Christian Imperialism Episode 047 (2015)
COURSES TAUGHT
Michigan State University
Graduate:
U.S. Historiography to 1865 (HST 800)
Methods of Historical Research (HST 803)
Religion and Empire (HST 850)
Undergraduate:
Honors Thesis Seminar (HST 499H)
Law and Society (HST 225)
Colonial America: 3 Worlds Meet (HST 301)
Revolutionary America (HST 302)
American Women’s History through 1869 (HST 313)
American Foreign Relations through 1914 (HST 325)
Historical Approaches to Contemporary Issues: Religion in US Politics and Society (HST 110)
Historical Methods and Skills: Radicals and Reformers in American History (HST 201)
Historical Methods and Skills: Reform and Reformers in 19th-Century America (HST 201)
US and the World: The Formation of American National Identity (IAH 201)
National Diversity and Change: Memory and American History (ISS 335 Honors)
National Diversity and Change: Social Science Approaches to the American Past (ISS 335)
National Diversity and Change: Slavery and Race in the United States (ISS 335)
Graduate:
U.S. Historiography to 1865 (HST 800)
Methods of Historical Research (HST 803)
Religion and Empire (HST 850)
Undergraduate:
Honors Thesis Seminar (HST 499H)
Law and Society (HST 225)
Colonial America: 3 Worlds Meet (HST 301)
Revolutionary America (HST 302)
American Women’s History through 1869 (HST 313)
American Foreign Relations through 1914 (HST 325)
Historical Approaches to Contemporary Issues: Religion in US Politics and Society (HST 110)
Historical Methods and Skills: Radicals and Reformers in American History (HST 201)
Historical Methods and Skills: Reform and Reformers in 19th-Century America (HST 201)
US and the World: The Formation of American National Identity (IAH 201)
National Diversity and Change: Memory and American History (ISS 335 Honors)
National Diversity and Change: Social Science Approaches to the American Past (ISS 335)
National Diversity and Change: Slavery and Race in the United States (ISS 335)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
DEPARTMENAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
History Department
2022- Honors Advisor
2021-2023 Department Advisory Committee (elected)
2019-2020 Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee
2018 Chair Selection Committee (elected)
2017-2019 Annual Review Committee
2016-2017 Search Committee, Tenure-Track Faculty in Ancient Mediterranean
2016 Ad-Hoc Search Committee, Visiting Faculty in United States and the World
2015-2017 Department Advisory Committee (elected)
2014-2015 Undergraduate Education Committee
Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
2022 Gen Cen Graduate Awards Committee
2018-2020 Conference Planning Committee: “Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power:
Past, Present, and Future”
Fall 2016 Advisory Committee
University
2022- National and International Fellowships and Scholarships Advisory Council
2021-2023 Co-Chair, HARP Humanities Research Grant Review Panel (Chair in 2022-2023)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH (Non-MSU)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
2022-2025 Advisory Council (elected)
2022-2023 Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Misconduct and Harassment
2023 Mentor, SHEAR Mentoring Program
2021 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SHEAR Annual Meeting
2018 Program Committee, SHEAR Annual Meeting
2017-2020 Nominating Committee (elected)
2017-2018 Founding Co-Convener, SHEAR Second-Book Writers’ Workshop
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
2021-2023 Advisory Council (elected)
2023 Development Committee
2022 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SHAFR Annual Meeting
2021-2023 Code of Conduct Report Team (chair in 2023)
2020 Program Committee, SHAFR Annual Meeting
2017-2019 Stuart Bernath Book Prize Selection Committee
Society for US Intellectual History (S-USIH)
2023-2024 Executive Committee (elected)
2024 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SUSIH Annual Meeting
2023 May Graduate Fellowships Review Committee
2020, 2023 Program Committee, SUSIH Annual Meeting
Editorial Boards
2020- United States in the World Series Editorial Board, Cornell University Press
2018-2020 Diplomatic History Editorial Board
Other Professional Service and Outreach
2023-2025 American Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association
2023 American Republic Fellowships Review Panel, Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), Harvard University
2022 Fellowship Review Panel, Summer Stipends, National Endowment for the Humanities
2022 Graduate Fellowships Review Panel, Clements Library, University of Michigan
2020- Advisory Board, Papers of Andrew Jackson
2014-2018 Steering Committee, Seminar on Religion and US Empire, American Academy of Religion
2013-2016 Contributing Blogger, Teaching US History
History Department
2022- Honors Advisor
2021-2023 Department Advisory Committee (elected)
2019-2020 Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee
2018 Chair Selection Committee (elected)
2017-2019 Annual Review Committee
2016-2017 Search Committee, Tenure-Track Faculty in Ancient Mediterranean
2016 Ad-Hoc Search Committee, Visiting Faculty in United States and the World
2015-2017 Department Advisory Committee (elected)
2014-2015 Undergraduate Education Committee
Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
2022 Gen Cen Graduate Awards Committee
2018-2020 Conference Planning Committee: “Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power:
Past, Present, and Future”
Fall 2016 Advisory Committee
University
2022- National and International Fellowships and Scholarships Advisory Council
2021-2023 Co-Chair, HARP Humanities Research Grant Review Panel (Chair in 2022-2023)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH (Non-MSU)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
2022-2025 Advisory Council (elected)
2022-2023 Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Misconduct and Harassment
2023 Mentor, SHEAR Mentoring Program
2021 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SHEAR Annual Meeting
2018 Program Committee, SHEAR Annual Meeting
2017-2020 Nominating Committee (elected)
2017-2018 Founding Co-Convener, SHEAR Second-Book Writers’ Workshop
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
2021-2023 Advisory Council (elected)
2023 Development Committee
2022 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SHAFR Annual Meeting
2021-2023 Code of Conduct Report Team (chair in 2023)
2020 Program Committee, SHAFR Annual Meeting
2017-2019 Stuart Bernath Book Prize Selection Committee
Society for US Intellectual History (S-USIH)
2023-2024 Executive Committee (elected)
2024 Co-Chair, Program Committee, SUSIH Annual Meeting
2023 May Graduate Fellowships Review Committee
2020, 2023 Program Committee, SUSIH Annual Meeting
Editorial Boards
2020- United States in the World Series Editorial Board, Cornell University Press
2018-2020 Diplomatic History Editorial Board
Other Professional Service and Outreach
2023-2025 American Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association
2023 American Republic Fellowships Review Panel, Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), Harvard University
2022 Fellowship Review Panel, Summer Stipends, National Endowment for the Humanities
2022 Graduate Fellowships Review Panel, Clements Library, University of Michigan
2020- Advisory Board, Papers of Andrew Jackson
2014-2018 Steering Committee, Seminar on Religion and US Empire, American Academy of Religion
2013-2016 Contributing Blogger, Teaching US History