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Public Humanities Fellow, The Whiting Foundation, 2017-2018

Emerging Scholar Rainmaker Award for Research and Creativity

Flooded Catholicism: Disaster and Prayer in Coastal Louisiana

Missionaries, Martyrdom, and Warfare in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1764

Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 (Religion in America)

Gods of the Mississippi (Religion in North America)

Religion in America: The Basics

American Religious History & Catholicism

Professor Pasquier studies the history of religion in the United States with specialization in American Catholicism and religion in the U.S. South. His research publications include Father on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870  (2010), Religion in America: The Basics (2016), and the edited volume, Gods of the Mississippi (2013). He co-produced the film Water Like Stone, a documentary about a Louisiana fishing village facing environmental and economic decay, and produce the podcast Coastal Voices, an audio documentary series that explores the relationship between people, land, and water in coastal Louisiana.

Dr. Pasquier's work on religion and culture in the Mississippi River Valley has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Whiting Foundation.

He has previously served as Director of the Religious Studies Program (2013-2019), Director of the Center for Collaborative Knowledge (2018-2021), the Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program (2018-2021), and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (2021-2022).

Religion in the U.S. South, the Gulf South, and/or Louisiana

American Religious History

American Catholicism

Religion in the U.S. South

LSU Faculty Profile 

LSU Department of History Profile

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LSU professor breaks down papal conclave in the Vatican City

Expert explains as papal conclave begins Wednesday in Vatican City

Dr. Michael Pasquier Interview on Pope Francis

Bishop of Alexandria reflects on legacy of Pope Francis

‘It’s Numbing’: Nine Retired Nuns in Michigan Die of Covid-19

Public Engagement Fellowship

Start-Up Grant

Interim Dean, College of Humanities & Social Sciences | Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies | Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program

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