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Biography
My research and scholarship combines study of American culture and religion with modern Middle Eastern history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and my goal is to write and teach globally situated history that explores the interactions of American history with the world.
I am particularly interested in the intersections of private beliefs and public activism. My research explores a network of religious social activists I call “Practical Christians,” who shared a commitment to non-sectarian Christian cooperation and the exercise of Christian Citizenship in order to reform their neighborhoods, their nation, and the world.
Education (4)
University of Notre Dame: Ph.D., History 2012
University of Notre Dame: M.A., History 2007
Wheaton College: M.A., Biblical Archaeology: New Testament and the Classical World 2004
Moody Bible Institute: B.A., Biblical Studies 1999
Areas of Expertise and Research Interests (6)
U.S. History
History
American Culture and Religion
Public Activism
Modern Middle Eastern History
Teaching and Education
Academics and Published Research (2)
Publications
My current book project, Civilizing the World: Practical Christians, Progressive Religion, and Politics from Chicago to the Middle East, 1890-1925, analyzes social reformers who defied categorization within the Social Gospel or secular progressive movements. My publications include “The Near Eastern Front of the Great War and the Self-Secularization of Christian Humanitarian Work,” in Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War, ed., Philip Jenkins (2015), and “America’s Sacred Duty: Near East Relief and the Armenian Crisis, 1915-1930,” in Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports Online, eds. Ken Rose and Erwin Levold (2009). Additional publications include a review of Jonathan Ebel, Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War in Journal of Church and State (December 2010) and articles on "Alexander Russell Webb," and "Columbian Exposition of 1893 & Muslim Participation at the Fair," in The Encyclopedia of Muslim American History, ed., Edward E. Curtis IV (2009).
Courses Taught
- America and the Middle East - Marriage, Family & Gender in U.S. History - Modern History of the Middle East - Religion, Politics & Society in 20th-Century America
Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (2)
The Near Eastern Front of the Great War and the Self-Secularization of Christian Humanitarian Work
Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War
ed., Philip Jenkins
2015 Remembering Armageddon explores the powerful religious dimensions of the First World War.
America’s Sacred Duty: Near East Relief and the Armenian Crisis, 1915-1930
Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports Online
Sarah Miglio
2009 Throughout World War I and its aftermath, hundreds of thousands of refugees across Europe and Asia Minor were the recipients of humanitarian aid. But in the United States one ethnic group in particular, the Armenians, captured Americans‟ imaginations and prompted the nation to action.