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Rober tElder
AssistantProfessorofHistory
ValparaisoUniversity
DepartmentofHistory
1400ChapelDrive
Valparaiso,IN46383
Phone:219-464-5455(office)
robert.elder@valpo.edu
Education
2011Ph.D.,history,EmoryUniversity
Dissertation:SouthernSaintsandSacredHonor:Evangelicalism,Honor,
Community,andtheSelfinSouthCarolinaandGeorgia,1784-1860
Committee:JamesL.Roark(adviser),E.BrooksHolifield,JonathanPrude,
andBertramWyatt-Brown(outsidereader)
2005M.A.,history,ClemsonUniversity
2003B.A.summacumlaude,historyandEnglish,ClemsonUniversity
Professiona l
2014-PresentAssistantProfessorofHistory,ValparaisoUniversity
2013-2014AssistantProfessorofHistory,TaborCollege
2011-2013LillyPostdoctoralFellowandLecturerinHumanitiesandHistory,Christ
College,ValparaisoUniversity
Distinctions
2012DissertationnominatedbyEmoryUniversityhis torydepartmentforthe2012
AllanNevinsPrize,o↵eredbytheS ocietyofAmericanHistoriansforthe
best-writtendoctoraldissertationonanAmericansubject
2010-2011Dean’sTeachingFellowship,LaneyGraduateSchool,EmoryUniversity(for
provenexcellenceandpotentialinteaching)
2009LewisP.JonesRe searchFellow,S outhCarolinianaLibrary,Universityof
SouthCarolina
2009CompetitiveResearchAward,GraduateSchoolofArts&Sciences,Emory
University
2008CompetitiveResearchAward,GraduateSchoolofArts&Sciences,Emory
University
2008VisitingResearchFellowship,InstituteforSouthernStudies,Universityof
SouthCarolina
2007VisitingResearchFellowship,InstituteforSouthernStudies,Universityof
SouthCarolina
2005-2010GraduateSchoolofArtsandSciencesSupplementalFellowship,EmoryUni-
versity
2005SouthCarolinaColonialDamesAwardforoutstandinggraduatestudentin
AmericanHistory,ClemsonUniversity
Teaching
TeachingInterests
EarlyAmerica,ModernAmerica,U.S.intheWorld,AmericanSouth,AmericanReligiousHis-
tory,AtlanticReligions,SlaveryinAmerica,African-AmericanHistory,CivilWarandRecon-
struction,Gender,Evangelicalism,EarlyModernEurope
SelectedCourses
ValparaisoUniversity
HIST220:TheAmericanExperienceto1877
HIST221:TheAmericanExperienceintheModernWorld
HIST320:ColonialAmerica
HIST323:CivilWarandReconstruction
HIST492/CC300:RaceandClassintheAmericanSouth
CC115:TextsandContextsII:InhumanBondage:S laveryinAmerica(o↵eredinValparaiso
UniversityHonorsCollege,Spring2013)
TaborCollege
HI160/161:WorldCivilizationsIandII
HI130:AmericanSocialHistory:RaceandReligion
HI318:AmericanReligiousHistory
HI400:Historiography
EmoryUniversity
HIST231:FoundationsofAmericanSocietyto1877
HIST385:OldReligionsintheNewWorld:TransatlanticReligiousMovementsandAmerican
Identitiesto1865
Publications
BookManuscript
TheSacredMirror:Evangelicalism,Honor,andIdentityintheAmericanSouth,1790-1860
(undercontract,UniversityofNorthCarolinaP ress)
Peer-ReviewedArticles
“ATwiceSacredCircle:Women,Evangelicalism,andHonorintheDeepSouth,1784-1860,”
JournalofSouthernHistory(August2012)
“SacredHistory:TheFormationofCivilReligionsintheAmericanSouthandSouthAfrica,”
Safundi(January,2005)
BookReviews
BertramWyatt-Brown,AWarringNation:Honor,Race,andHumiliationinAmericaand
Abroad(LSU,2014)inTheJournalofAmericanHistory(forthcoming)
TimothyL.Wesley,ThePoliticsofFaithDuringtheCivilWar(LSU,2013)inJournalof
SouthernReligion(Fall2013)
WilliamKau↵manScarborough,TheAllstonsofChicoraWood:Wealth,Honor,andGentility
intheSouthCarolinaLowCountry(LSU,2011)inAgriculturalHistory(Winter2013)
CharityR.Carney,MinistersandMasters:Methodism,Manhood,andHonorintheOldSouth
(LSU,2011)inJournalofSouthernHistory(February2013)
PeterSlade,OpenFriendshipinaClosedSociety:MissionMis s issippiandaTheologyof
Friendship(Oxford,2009)inJournalofAmericanStudies(November2010)
AnyaJabour,Scarlett’sSi ste rs:YoungWomenintheOldSouth(UNCPress,2007)inJournal
ofAmericanStudies(February2010)
J.WilliamHarris(ed.),TheOldSouth:NewStudiesofSoc ie tyandCulture(Routledge,2008)
andTheNewSouth:NewHistories(Routledge,2008)inJournalofAmericanStudies(April
2009)
SelectedEditorials,EncyclopediaArticles,Reviewsetc.
“RememberingLi ncoln,”TheCresset:AReviewo fLiterature,Arts,a n dPublicA↵airs(Lent
2013)
“AreTwoHeadsB etterThanOne?AContrarianLookatGroupWork,”LillyFellowsProgram
NetworkCommunique(vol.27,2012)
“ColorBlindness,”areviewofEdwardJ.BlumandPaulHarvey,TheColorofChrist:The
SonofGodandtheSagaofRaceinAmerica(UNCPress,2012)inBooks&Culture(Septem-
ber/October2012)
“ErrandoutoftheWilderness,”areviewofMatthewBowman,
TheMormonPeople:TheMaking
ofanAmericanFaith(RandomHouse,2012)inDialogue:AJournalofMormonThought(Sum-
mer2012)
“ReligionandViolenceintheAmericanSouth,”inNewEncyclopediaofSouthernCulture,vol.
19:Violence,AmyWood(volume)andCharlesReaganWilson(series),eds.,(UNCPress,2011)
“ANewPerspectiveonRacialReconcilationinMississippi,”areviewofPeterSlade,Open
FriendshipinaClosedSociety:MissionMississippiandaTheologyofFriendship(OxfordPress,
2009)inBooks&Culture(October2010)
“OldAndyJacksonWouldUnderstandJohnMcCain.DoYou?”HistoryNewsNetwork,Septem-
ber29,2008
Presentations
Papers
“‘LeavingHisJustDebtsUnpaid’:Commerce,Reputation,andReligioni ntheDeepSouth,
1800-1860,”SouthernHistoricalAssociation,St.Louis,Missouri(November,2013)
“Honor’sAudience:Evangelicalism,Community,andtheBibleintheOldSouth,”Associationof
BritishAme ricanNineteenthCenturyHistorians,UniversityofNorthumbria,UK,October2012
“ThePrehistoryofthe‘CrusadingChristianConfederate’:Honor,M anhood,Religion,andthe
CivilWar,”InvitedPresentationattheSymposiumonReligionandtheCivilWar,Institutefor
StudiesofReligion,BaylorUniversity,Waco,Texas,September2011
“DualMembership:MenandViolenceintheMoralCommunitiesofHonorandEvangelicalism
intheSouth,1800-1860,”AmericanSocietyofChurchHistoryConference,SanDiego,California,
January2010
“TheLocalChurchasanAlternativeCourtofOpinion,”ReligionGraduateSymposium,Florida
StateUniversity,Tallahassee,Florida,February2009
“TheVerySouthernSaints:ReconsideringtheDistanceBetweenHonorandEvangelicalismin
theDeepSouth,1800-1860,”Masculinityandt heAmericanSouthSymposium,Universityof
Warwick,UK,June2008
PanelsOrganized
“NewPerspectivesonTwoCenturiesofEvangelicalism,Honor,andMasculinityintheAmerican
South,”Am ericanSocietyofChurchHistoryConference,SanDiego,California,January2010
“RethinkingSacredvs.Secular:Religion,MoralityandModernityinthe19thCenturySouth,”
SouthernHistoricalAssociation,St.Louis,Missouri(November2013)
SelectedUniversity,Department,andProfessionalService
Contributorand“VitaeVoice”forVitae,anonlineinitiativeofTheChronicleofHigherEducation
Reviewer,TheAmericanPromise:AHistoryoftheUnitedStates,byJamesL.Roark,etal.,
forBedfordSt.Martin’s
Referee,JournalofSouthernHistory,2011,2014
Referee,JournalofSouthernReligion,2011
