Andrew C. Reed
Assistant Professor
Department of Church History
Richard L. Evans Fellow of Religious Outreach
Brigham Young University
Andrew_Reed@byu.edu
(801) 422 – 4329
275 A JSB, Provo, UT 84602
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2014 – Arizona State University, Modern European History.
Research Field: Modern Eastern Europe and Russia
Secondary Field: Religious Studies and Jewish History
Dissertation Title: For One’s Brothers: Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son and the Jewish Question in Russia, 1819-1911. (Committee: Stephen Batalden, Chair; Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Mark von Hagen, Brian Horowitz, Eugene Clay)
M.St. 2008 – University of Cambridge, Girton College, Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.
M.St. 2005 – University of Oxford, Wolfson College, Slavonic Studies.
BA 2004 – Brigham Young University, History.
II. PUBLICATIONS and CURRENT PROJECTS
Published Articles
“The Saratov Case as a Critical Juncture in Ritual Murder History.” in The Worlds of Ritual Murder: Culture, Politics, and Belief in Eastern Europe and Beyond, Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, and Robert Weinberg, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), 74-94.
Rose Marie Reid, LeGrand Richards, and “The Plan for Teaching the Gospel to Jewish People,” Andrew C. Reed, John M. Murphy, and Jesse King, Mormon Historical Studies (Spring/Fall 2016), 145-194.
“Framing the Restoration and Gathering: Orson Hyde and Early Mormon Understandings of Israel, Jews, and the Second Coming” in Foundations of the
Restoration 2016 Sperry Symposium, Craig Ostler, Barbara Morgan, and Michael Hubbard MacKay, eds. (Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University, 2016), 225-244.
“The non-Mormon mormony: authority, religious tolerance, and sectarian identification in late imperial Russia” in The Worldwide Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion, Michael A. Goodman and Mauro Properzi, eds. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University, 2016), 185-207.
“Convergent Aims: The Revival of Jewish Studies in St. Petersburg and the Search for Russia’s Unaffiliated Jews.” Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, vol. 11 (2013): 25-46.
Edited Books
Andrew C. Reed and Greg Wilkinson, eds. Religious Freedom: Building Faith, Family, and Society (Provo, UT: Office of Religious Outreach and Religious Education, 2017).
Published Book Reviews
Review of Mikhailov, H. B., and Plamper, Jan, eds. Malen’kii chelovek i bol’shaia voina v istorii rossii: Seredina XIX – seredina XX v. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2013. in The Russian Review: An American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present, vol. 75, no. 3 (July 2016): 536-537.
Review of Nosenko-Stein, Elena. Peredaite ob etom detiam vashim, a ikh dety sleduiushchemu rodu: Kulturnaia pamiat’ u rossiiskikh evreev v nashi dni. Biblioteka Rossiiskovo evreiskovo kongressa. Moscow: Institut vostokovedeniia RAN, 2013 in The Russian Review: An American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present, vol. 74, no. 1 (January 2015): 180-181.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Zionism (Jewish and Christian)”, End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions, Wendell G. Johnson, editor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017), 343-347.
Invited Newsletter Contributions (Misc.)
“Jewish—Latter-day Saint Dialogue” BYU Religious Education Review (Fall 2017), 18-21.
“Summer Study in Vilnius, Lithuania” Arizona State University: Center for Jewish Studies (Fall 2010), 17.
Forthcoming Publications
“Vernacular Religion: Creative Individuals and Community Aesthetics” Cultural History of Religions in the West, Brett McInelly, ed. (London: Bloomsbury Academic) – under editorial review.
“An Apostate Maskil: The Impact of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son” (under review)
Current Projects
Contested Identity: D. A. Khvol’son, Ritual Murder, and the Battle for Tolerance in Late Imperial Russia (monograph)
“In Search of Truth: Pavel Florenskii’s theosophic interpretation of the world in 1914.” Article to be submitted to The Russian Review or Kritika.
Jay Jensen and the First Japan Mission – Documentary editing project. This project is anticipated to be a three-volume collection that examines the missionary journals and experiences of early Latter-day Saint missionaries in Japan (1901-1923). In collaboration with Greg Wilkinson (BYU) and Michael Hubbard MacKay (BYU).
Rose Marie Reid – Biography
III. RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS
2015-Present Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Department of Church History and Doctrine
2014-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Department of Church History and Doctrine
2013-2014 Adjunct Instructor, Brigham Young University, Religious Education, Department of Church History and Doctrine
2012-2013 NSEP Boren Fellow (St. Petersburg, Russia) European University St. Petersburg, Research Affiliate, IMARES
2011, 2012 Research Affiliate, European University St. Petersburg, Department of Anthropology
2011-2012 Graduate Teaching Associate, Arizona State University, Department of History
2010-2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Department of History
2008-2010 Research Associate, Arizona State University, Melikian Center for Russian and East European Studies/ Project Go (ROTC and Military language training program)/ Critical Languages Institute
2007-2008 Taft Union High School, English Teacher, Taft, CA
2005-2006 Taft College, Adjunct Instructor, Taft, CA
IV. COURSES TAUGHT
Brigham Young University
REL C 351 Survey of World Religions
REL C 357 Survey of Judaism and Islam
REL C 325 Doctrine and Covenants
REL C 225 Foundations of the Restoration
Arizona State University
HST 104 Western Civilization 1500-Present
HST 103 Western Civilization 1200-1700
HST 354 Revolutionary Europe 1789-1917
Taft College
HISTORY 17A US History Survey
V. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Jewish-Christian Relations, Late-Imperial Russia, History of Education, Politics and Religious minorities, Theory of Empires, Jewish Historiography, Secularism
VI. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS and INVITED LECTURES
“A Tale of Great Disdain – Ritual Murder and the Turn Away from Imperial Myths in the Post-Revolutionary Period” International Young Researchers Conference on Centennial, Commemoration, Catastrophe: 1917-2017 as Past and Present in Russia and Beyond, Cuma, Italy (June 14, 2017)
“Playing Religion: Russian Jewish Apostates in Nineteenth-Century Society” Religion and Spirituality in Society, Imperial College London, London, England (April 17, 2017)
“The Image of Mormons in Hollywood and Media” Academy of Jewish Religion, Los Angeles, CA (December 10, 2016).
“The Blood Libel as a National Myth: Finding the Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Russia” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, D.C. (November 19, 2016).
“Framing the Restoration and Gathering: Orson Hyde and Early Mormon Understandings of Israel, Jews, and the Second Coming” Sperry Symposium, Provo, UT (October 30, 2016).
“Covenantal Belonging and Mormon Missiology” John Whitmer Historical Association, 44th Annual Conference, Kirtland, OH (September 23, 2016).
“To Doubt the Progress of Humanity: D. A. Khvol’son’s Efforts to Humanize Jewish Otherness” Association for Slavic, Eurasian, East European Studies – International Association for the Humanities Summer Convention, Lviv, Ukraine (June 26, 2016)
“Finding Pathways and Practices for Religious Tolerance in Early Mormonism” Mormon Historical Association, Snowbird, UT (June 9, 2016).
“Early Mormon Understandings of “Literal Gathering” and Israel” John Whitmer Historical Association, 43rd Annual Conference, Independence, MO (September 24-27, 2015).
“‘I have marked well the plight of My people’: Contemporary Jewish and Mormon Relations” International Association for the History of Religions, World Congress, Erfurt, Germany (August 28, 2015).
“Orson Hyde’s political and religious perspective on Jews and Judaism” Mormon Historical Association, Provo, UT (June 7, 2015).
“Narrating the Blood Libel Myth” Association for the Study of Nationalities 20th World Convention, Columbia University, New York City, NY (April 25, 2015).
“The non-Mormon mormony: authority religious tolerance, and sectarian identification in late imperial Russia.” Brigham Young University Church History Symposium “The International Church: The Global Reach of Mormonism.” Salt Lake City, UT (March 6-7, 2014).
“Proselytes, Philanthropists, and Scholars: Reaching Russia’s ‘Unaffiliated’ Jews in Contemporary Russia.” Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA (December 15, 2013).
“A Century of Beilis: Where did you come from? Where did you go?” 18th World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University/Herriman Institute, New York City, NY (April 18, 2013).
“Daniil Khvol’son: A Case Study for Understanding Jewish Conversion in a Confessional Empire.” Faculty presentation, Brigham Young University Religious Education, Provo, UT (November 27, 2012).
“Jewish Studies in contemporary St. Petersburg.” Revival of Jewish Studies in Eastern Europe Symposium (Arizona State University and Uniwersytet Jagielloński). Tempe, AZ (November 8-9, 2012).
“You’re Going to Have the Same Problems Here – Cultural Stereotypes from St. Petersburg to Phoenix.” Wells Fargo Legal Group – Cultural Diversity Event. Phoenix, AZ (April 12, 2012).
“The Refutation of Blood Libel: Forms and Sources of Authority in the Defense of Jews Accused of Committing Ritual Murder.” Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (ASEEES) National Convention, Washington, D. C. (November 19, 2011).
“The Scholar as Activist: Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son and the Legacy of His 1861 O nekotorykh srednevekovykh obvineniiakh protiv evreev: Istoricheskoe issledovanie po istochnikam.” Western Regional Conference on Faith and History - “The Historian and the Text.” Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (October 22, 2011).
“Thinking about the academic study of Jewish—Christian relations in the 21st century university.” Arizona State University Center for Jewish Studies Student Recognition Celebration (April 28, 2010) Republished in abridged form, in Arizona State University Center for Jewish Studies, Fall 2010 Newsletter. http://jewishstudies.clas.asu.edu/newsletter
“Russian ‘Silver Age’ Religious Philosophers and Jews” at American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) National Convention, Boston, MA (November 15, 2009).
“Jewish Lithuania: Looking Back, Looking Forward” at Or Adam Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Scottsdale, AZ (October 2009).
“Anti-Semitism in the Beilis Trial, 1911-1913” at “Controversy and Convergence: Emerging Voices and Debates in Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Northern Arizona University (May 2009).
“Beilis Revisited.” at “What’s in a Name? The Name of God and Eschatology in Philosophy, History, and Art.” Arizona State University (April 2009).
“Dabru Emet and A Sacred Obligation: Starting points for theological definitions of Jewish-Christian Relations.” at Cambridge Theological Federation, University of Cambridge (January 2007).
“Ukrainian and Polish Interaction and Public Education in Austrian Galicia, 1867-1900.” at Harvard University, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Graduate Research Session (August 2005).
“Meletij Smotryc’kyj’s Homillary Gospel (1616): Examples of Early Ukrainian Linguistic Development.” Oxford Graduate Russian Society, University of Oxford (March 2005).
VII. RELEVANT FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2017 “Young Researcher Conference: Centennial, Commemoration, Catastrophe, 1917-2017 as Past and Present in Russia and Beyond.” Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies (Miami University) in Cuma, Italy. (Fellowship for Research).
2014 “Church and State in the Early American Republic” The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, Summer 2014 (Fellowship for Study).
2014 Wallace E. Adams Memorial Award for Excellence in European History – Arizona State University.
2012-2013 Outstanding Teaching in the College Award, Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.
2013 Arizona State University Graduate and Professional Student Association European Travel Grant.
2013 Arizona State University Center for Jewish Studies—Great Students Fellowship.
2012-2013 Arizona State University Melikian Center—Research Incentive Funds, Grant for study in Eastern Europe.
2012-2013 National Security Education Program—David L. Boren Fellowship for St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012 Dissertation Research Fellowship—Brigham Young University Religious Education.
2012 Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Outreach Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer Research Lab Grant.
2012 Arizona State University Department of History—Summer Research Block Grant.
2012-2013 Arizona State University Department of History—Dissertation Research Fellowship.
2011-2012 Arizona State University Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate Research Support Program (GRSP).
2011-2012 Arizona State University Melikian Center — Research Grant.
2011-2012 Arizona State University Department of History –- Adams European Travel Grant.
2010-2011 Jess Schwartz Memorial Scholarship — ASU Center for Jewish Studies.
2009-2010 Arizona State University Graduate and Professional Student Association, Travel Grant.
2009-2010 Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Travel Grant Award.
2009 Or Adam Congregation for Humanistic Judaism Scholarship — ASU Jewish Studies Center.
2009 Morris and Julia Kertzer Scholar — ASU Center for Jewish Studies.
2009 Great Students Graduate Fellowship — ASU Center for Jewish Studies Fellowship.
2008 Arizona State University — Graduate Fellowship, Board of Graduate Studies.
2005 Harvard University HURI — Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute Graduate Fellowship (Graduate course work in language and history).
VIII. DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2016-2017 Church History and Doctrine Reading Discussion Group—Chair.
2015-2016 Master’s Thesis committee member (Jeff Smedley, Jared Davis).
2015 (Moderator) Five Questions: Bringing Greater Understanding in the Community. Interfaith panel hosted by the BYU Newman Catholic Student Club (November 11, 2015).
2015-2016 BYU Scholarly and Creative Works Grant Reviewer
2015 BYU National Scholarships, Fellowships, and Programs (NSFP) Mock Interviewer for Rhodes Scholarship – Jerald Adam Long
2015-2018 BYU Religious Education Student Symposium Committee member.
2015-2017 Team Leader: Scholarship Workshop Writing Group – BYU Religious Education
2014-2018 Richard L. Evans Fellow of Religious Outreach
2014-2017 Faculty Forum Committee—Religious Education, Brigham Young University (2016-2017 Chair)
2014 Phi Alpha Theta Student Honor Society Regional Conference—“New Views on the Holocaust” Panel Chair and Moderator—Provo, UT. March 29, 2014.
2010-2011 Arizona State University, Department of History/Center for Jewish Studies—Eastern Europe Faculty Search Committee — Graduate Representative.
2009 Arizona State University, Conference Committee –- Joint Graduate and Undergraduate Student Government Legislative Policy Board.
2008-2010 Arizona State University Graduate and Professional Student Association — Assembly Member for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2008-2010); Internal Affairs Committee Member.
2006-2008 Graduate Representative for the Faculty Advisory Board, Divinity Faculty (Center for the Study of Jewish – Christian Relations), University of Cambridge.
2007 Graduate Representative, Faculty Search Committee, Center for the Study of Jewish — Christian Relations, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
IX. SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL FIELD
2014-PRESENT Book reviewer for the Russian Review
2016 article reviewer for Mormon Historical Studies
2016 Chair for MHA Panel
2015-PRESENT Reviewer for BYU Religious Studies Center/Religious Educator
X. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of Nationalities
Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Association for Jewish Studies
Mormon Historical Association
John Whitmer Historical Society
American Academy of Religion
Phi Alpha Theta
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