 Tom Simpson home page Tom Simpson specializes in American religious history. His major research interests lie in Mormon history. His current book project, based on research in ecclesiastical, university, and state archives in Utah, is titled Authority, Ambition, and the Mormon Mind: Latter-day Saints in American Higher Education, 1870-1940. His other research and teaching interests include the Protestant social gospel movement, African-American religious history, and American neopragmatism.
From 2002 to 2004 he directed Emory University's Journeys of Reconciliation program, an international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious travel program exploring the connections between religion, conflict, and reconciliation. During his tenure as director, he co-led journeys to the Appalachian coal fields and Bosnia.
In 2004 the University of Virginia's faculty senate awarded him one of their five dissertation-year fellowships for excellence in teaching and research. In 2006 the American Society of Church History awarded him its annual Sidney E. Mead Prize for the best essay, based on doctoral research, in the history of Christianity. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and he came to Carthage in 2005. |
