Joseph S. Moore, Ph.D.
Professional Address
Gardner-Webb University
Box 7227
Department of Social Sciences
Boiling Springs, NC 28017
Education
Ph.D., US History, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011
Secondary Concentration: African American History
Dissertation: “Irish Radicals, Southern Conservatives: Slavery, religious liberty and the Presbyterian fringe in the Atlantic World, 1637-1877”
Committee: Robert M. Calhoon (chair), Charles Bolton, Thomas Jackson, Mark Noll, Loren Schweninger
M.A. in US History, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007
Secondary Concentration: European History
M.A.T.S., M.Div., Erskine Theological Seminary, 2005
Concentration: Church History
B.A. Liberal Studies, Anderson College, 2000
Editor
Guest Editor with Jane G.V. McGaughey, Special Edition, “Holy Heritage: Covenanters in the Atlantic World,” The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (June, 2013).
Publications
Moore, Joseph S., “Covenanters and antislavery in the Atlantic world,” in Slavery & Abolition, (forthcoming, 2013).
Moore, Joseph. “American Innovations to Scots-Irish Religious Traditions: Rev. John Hemphill and the Covenanter-Seceder Presbyterians in the American South” in Ferguson, Frank and Richard MacMaster, eds. Ulster Scot Writers in North America. Dublin: Four Courts Press (forthcoming).
Moore, Joseph. “White and Black Millennialism and Providentialism in Antebellum Abbeville District, South Carolina.” in Dresser, Zach and Benjamin Wright, eds., Apocalypse and the Millennium: Providential Religion in the Era of the Civil War. Baton Rouge: LSU Press (2013).
Moore, Joseph S. and Jane G.V. McGaughey, “The Covenanter sensibility across the long Atlantic World,” The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (June, 2013), 125-134.
Moore, Joseph S. and Robert M. Calhoon. “Evangelicalism: Nineteenth Century.” Encyclopedia of Religion in America. CQ Press, 2010.
Moore, Joseph S. “To the Public: A Transcription of Robert Grier’s 1850 Broadside with an Introduction.” The Journal of Backcountry Studies. Volume IV, Issue 2 (August, 2009)
Works in Progress
Covenanter America: The Untold Story of the Failed Attempt to Found a Christian Nation
This monograph examines the Covenanters of Scotland, Ireland, and the US and their conflict with the state. Often overlooked in the scholarship on early America, Covenanting peoples consistently maintaining that Scotland and Ireland were failed Christian states and that the US wasn’t a Christian nation at all. This work complicates and informs the ongoing scholarly consensus regarding the founding of a secular America by bringing attention to a forgotten but once prominent voice of revolutionary and early republican America.
Research Grants
Harvard University, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World
Short-Term Research Grant, 2013
Organization of American Historians and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
John Higham Travel Grant, 2011
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
History Department Travel Grant, Spring 2011
Allan W. Trelease Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2011
Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Collection
Travel Grant, 2010
Atlantic World Research Network
Graduate Student Research Prize, 2008-2009
The Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Summer Research Grant, 2008
Awards, Honors, and Appointments
Queen’s University Belfast, Department of History and Anthropology
Visiting Research Associate, Autumn Term 2010
University of Notre Dame, History Department
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2009
Presentations
“Covenanters and the Limits of Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic,” at the Society for Historians of the Early Republic. July 21 2013. St. Louis, MO.
“Moderating Extremism: Irish Radicals Adapt to Slavery in the Early Republic,” as part of the panel “How Should We Study the Middle?: Different Approaches to Historic Moderation”. 2011 Organization of American Historians, Houston, TX. Panel Organizer.
“Religion, Work and Politics in a Divided Community: Freedmen and -women in Reconstruction Abbeville District, South Carolina. February 18-19, 2011. Fifth Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Ulster Covenants, Southern Petitions: How Whites and Blacks Used Covenanter Rhetoric to Moderate Slavery” as part of the panel “Holy Heritage: Covenanters in the Atlantic World”. 2011 American Historical Association, Boston, MA. Panel Organizer.
“The Religious Writings and Political Legacy of Rev. Dr. John Hemphill, 1761-1832” at The Thirty-Fourth Annual American Conference for Irish Studies-Midwest Conference, October 22, 2010. Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
“Black and White Millennialism and Providentialism in Antebellum Abbeville District, South Carolina” at the Conference on Millennialism and Providentialism in the Era of the American Civil War. October 2, 2010. Rice University, Houston, TX.
“Irish Nationalism, American Unionism, and Atlantic Slavery.” Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, May 5, 2010. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
“Brick Masons, Methodists, and Republicans: Armed Self-Defense in Wimbushville, Abbeville District, in 1877.” Presented at the Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South. March 12, 2010. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
“Slavery and Moderation in the South Carolina Upcountry” as part of the Colloquium on Religion and American History (CORAH), October 14, 2009. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
“A Necessary Middle: Reformed Presbyterians and Moderate Stances on Slavery in the South.” Presented at the XVII Ulster-American Heritage Symposium. June, 2008, Omagh, Northern Ireland.
“Dwelling in Tension: Protestant Principle, Scotch-Irish Identity, and Antebellum Racial Realities in William Hemphill.” Presented at the UNCG History Department Graduate Student Conference. April 2007, Greensboro, NC.
Invited Public Lectures and Presentations
“The Covenanter Sensibility: Scotland’s Anti-Enlightenment Atlantic Export” at the University of Edinburgh’s colloquium “Atlantic World Rhetorics.” March 19, 2012. Edinburgh, Scotland.
“The Phanatick, the Magician, and the Cow: The variety of historical sources in the research process,” presented at Elon University. Department of History and Geography. March, 2011. Elon, NC.
“Convictions, Conscience, and the Constitution: How Moderates and Evangelicals Dialogued on the New Government.” Presented as the invited Constitution Week Address. Department of History and Political Science. September, 2009. Anderson University, Anderson, SC.
“Discovering Moderation in a Polarized Southern Religious and Political Landscape,” Panelist remarks at the Center on Religion in the South Fall Forum. October, 2007, Columbia, SC.
Panel Chair
“Religious Beliefs and Identity Formation,” UNCG History Department Graduate Student Conference, April 30, 2010. UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
“Various Dimensions of the Constitutional Ratification Battle,” UNCG History Department Graduate Student Conference, April 15, 2011. UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
Teaching Positions
2011-Present, Assistant Professor of US History, Gardner-Webb University
Making America: Colonization, Revolution, and the US Constitution
Slavery in the Atlantic
The Long Civil Rights Movement
Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
Global Understanding
2010-2011, Instructor of Record, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Age of Democratic Revolutions (300 level)
United States History to 1865, (200 level)
Unites States History post 1865, (200 level)
2010-2011, Instructor of Record, Durham Technical and Community College
United States History to 1865, online and traditional (100 level)
Research and Teaching Interests
US History, Atlantic World, African American History, American Religious History
Mentored Student Awards and Publications
C.Y. Benedict Fellowship Winner (Ten nationwide $2500 graduate school scholarships from Alpha Chi Honors Society)
2013: Amy Snyder, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Window into North Carolina Slave Experiences.” from the class “Slavery in the Atlantic World,” Fall 2012
Explorations: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for the State of North Carolina, Vol. VII
2011: Lindsay Kohl, “Defining the Natural Rights of Man: Burke, Paine, and Wollstonecraft,” from the course “The Age of Democratic Revolutions,” Fall 2010
Book Reviews
Journal of Southern History
Journal of Southern Religion
North Carolina Historical Review
Center on Religion in the South
Professional Service
Departmental Web Content Administrator, 2013-present
Curriculum Committee, Gardner-Webb University, 2012-present
Co-leader of Coffee & Controversy, a weekly student discussion group (with Dr. Ben Gaskins, Political Science).
Reviewer, Explorations, The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for the State of North Carolina, 2012-present
“Slavery in Historical Context,” for Human Trafficking Awareness Week, Gardner-Webb University, March 21, 2013.
Community Service
Op-Ed contributor: Greensboro News and Record, November 8, 2008 and October 17, 2010
Op-Ed contributor: Adams Farm Gazette, 2006-2007
Academic References
Robert M. Calhoon, Professor Emeritus, History Department, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. PO Box 26170, UNCG, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, (o) 336.334.5709, rmcalhoo@uncg.edu
Charles Bolton, Head of the Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. PO Box 26170, UNCG, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, (o) 336.334.5209, CCBOLTON@uncg.edu
Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, 219 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, mnoll@nd.edu
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