Jennifer Graber | |
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Occupation | Historian |
Spouse | Stacy Vlasits |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2023) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797-1860 (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Grant Wacker |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | History of religion in the United States |
Institutions |
Jennifer Graber is an American historian. Originally a classical singer while studying at Goshen College,she later shifted towards studying history during her graduate studies,before becoming the Gwyn Shive,Anita Nordan Lindsay,and Joe &Cherry Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow,she has written on the history of religion in the United States: The Furnace of Affliction (2011) and Gods of Indian Country (2018).
A native of Goshen,Indiana, [2] Graber got her Bachelor of Arts degree (1995) in Music at Goshen College, [3] where she performed as an opera singer at the university,including at their centennial concert in 1995. [2] [4] She later obtained her Master of Theological Studies degree (1999) at the Candler School of Theology,and Doctor of Philosophy degree (2006) in American religious history at Duke University;her doctoral dissertation Christianity Imprisoned:Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary,1797-1860 was supervised by Grant Wacker. [3]
In 2006,Graber became Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Wooster. [3] In 2012,she moved to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and became Associate Professor of Religious Studies there. [3] On November 5,2019,she was promoted to Gwyn Shive,Anita Nordan Lindsay,and Joe &Cherry Gray Professor. [5] She became the Associate Director of UT Austin's Native American and Indigenous Studies Program in 2019,as well as the Associate Chair of UT Austin's Department of Religious Studies in 2022. [3]
Graber has authored two books on the history of religion in the United States: The Furnace of Affliction (2011) and Gods of Indian Country (2018). [6] [7] She has also taught classes in religion in the United States,as well as freedom of religion. [1] She collaborated with the Kiowa Tribal Museum to create the Kiowa Calendar Project. [8] In 2023,she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion. [9]
Graber is married to Stacy Vlasits,who works as a Senior Information Technology Manager at UT Austin. [10] [11]
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