David Gray Hackett
Professor
Department of Religion
122 Anderson Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
(352) 273-2929
EDUCATION
Ph.D.1980-1986Emory University
M.Div.1979-1980Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California
1977-1979Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Ed.M.1973-1974Harvard University, Education
B.A.1972-1973Hampshire College
1969-1972Amherst College
FIELDS OF STUDY
American Religious History
Sociology of Religion
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
University of Florida International Center Grant (2015)
Teacher of the Year, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida (2012)
University of Florida, Honors College, awards to teach honors courses (2009 and 2011)
University of Florida, Scholarship Enhancement Awards (1999 and 2009)
University of Florida, Grant “New Directions in Religious Studies” Lecture Series (2004)
Delton L. Scudder Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2000)
Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota, Resident Scholar (1998)
Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism in American Culture, Fellowship (1998)
University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, T.I.P. Teaching Award (1993 and 1998)
Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion in America, Fellow (1994)
Princeton University, Center of Theological Inquiry, Member (1994)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1994)
Billy Graham Center Travel Grant (1993)
University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research Grants (1987, 1988, 1993)
NEH, Summer Seminar "The New Gender Scholarship: Women and Men in U.S. History" (1992)
Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism in American Culture, Summer Fellowship (1992)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Research Awards (1988 and 1991)
American Society of Church History, Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize (1990)
Honorary Faculty Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Florida (1988)
Scholarships Foundation Fellowship (1985)
Emory University Fellowship (1980-1983)
Center for the Study of New Religious Movements Research Grant (1979)
Hampshire College Fellowship (1973)
EMPLOYMENT
2015-presentProfessor, Department of Religion, University of Florida
2004- 2008Chair, Department of Religion, University of Florida
2000 (Summer)Visiting Professor, London Study Program (Florida State University)
1999-2000Delton L. Scudder Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1997-1998Resident Scholar, Institute for Cultural and Ecumenical Research,
St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
1993-1994Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University
Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton Theological Seminary
1992 (Spring)Visiting Professor, London Study Program (Florida State University)
1991-2015Associate Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida
Affiliate Appointment: Women's Studies
1986-1991Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida
1981-1983Teaching Fellow, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
1978-1980Research Associate, Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in America, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
American Academy of Religion:
Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion (2003-2005)
Outside Evaluator of the Millennium Studies Group (2002)
Chair, North American Religions Section (1993-1997)
Steering Committee, North American Religions Section (1992-1993)
Steering Committee, Religion and Social Sciences Section (1990-1992)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion:
Chair, Publications Committee (2012-Present)
Member, Publications Committee (2011-2012)
Member, JSSR Editor Search Committee (2001-2002)
Member, Committee on Organizational Relations (1999-2001)
Chair, International Travel Award Committee (1996-1998)
Executive Council (1993-1996)
Chair, Distinguished Article Award Committee (1991-1992)
Association for the Sociology of Religion: Executive Council (1990-1992)
American Society of Church History: Membership Committee (1992-1994)
DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
Department:
Department Chair
Graduate Coordinator
Undergraduate Coordinator
Steering Committee
Graduate Committee
Chair “Buddhism” Search Committee
Chair, "History of Christianity/Judaism" Search Committee
Chair “American Religious History” Search Committee
Chair, Teaching Improvement Committee
Chair, Curriculum Committee
Chair, 10 Year Review Committee
Chair, Renovations Committee
Chair, PhD. Design Committee
College:
Elected President, College Assembly
Chair, Humanities Council
Chair, Ruth McQuown Women's Scholarship Committee
Executive Committee, American Studies Program
Executive Committee, Women's Studies
Fulbright Committee
Research and Development Award Committee
Faculty Study Abroad Award Committee
NEH Summer Stipend Committee
Humanities Seminar Steering Committee
University:
Elected member of Faculty Senate
Member Senate Committee to Implement Shared Governance in CLAS
University Task Force on Advising
Advising Evaluation Task Force
Faculty Advisor to Catholic Student Union
Honors Program Advisor
Spirituality and Health Sciences Steering Committee
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AS SEMINAR LEADER, CONSULTANT, AND REFEREE
State Department, United States-China Education Trust, Seminar Leader, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, (May 2013)
National Endowment for the Humanities College and University Fellowship Selection Committee (2007)
Florida Humanities Council, Seminar Leader, “Finding A Common Path” (1999-2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Program Selection Committee (2002)
Louisville Institute, Dissertation Award Selection Committee (1999)
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Consultant, The New Men's Ministries (September 1998)
Yale University, Department of Religious Studies, Pew Fellows Conference, Consultant (May 1997)
University of Chicago, Religion, Culture and Family Project, Consultant (1994-1996)
Notre Dame University, Engendering Catholicism Conference, Seminar Leader (Fall 1995)
PROFESSIONAL EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
University of California Press, Consulting Editor (1997-2004)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Editorial Board, "History Project," (1995-1998)
Manuscript referee for academic presses and journals including: Rutgers University Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Illinois Press, Routledge, and Church History, the Journal of American History, Religion and American Culture, Sociology of Religion the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and The Journal of Religion.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Runner-up for the American Society of Church History’s Albert C. Outler Prize for 2014.
The Silent Dialogue: Letters to a Trappist Abbot. New York: Continuum, 1996.
Religion and American Culture: A Reader. Editor. New York: Routledge and Sons, 1995.
Second Edition, 2003.
The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York 1652-1836. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991. Awarded the 1990 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize by the American Society of Church History.
Refereed Articles
"The Prince Hall Masons and the African-American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918." Church History, 69:4 (December, 2000), 770-802.
"Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1930." Religion and American Culture, 5:2 (June, 1995), 128-157.
"Rodney Stark and the Sociology of American Religious History." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29:3 (September 1990), 372-376.
"Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27:4 (December 1988), 461-474.
"The Social Origins of Nationalism: Albany, New York, 1754-1835." Journal of Social History 21:4 (June 1988), 659-682.
"The Most Segregated Institution: Correlates of Interracial Church Participation," with
C. Kirk Hadaway and James Fogle Miller. Review of Religious Research 25:3 (March 1984), 204-219.
Book Chapters
"The Prince Hall Masons and the African-American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918.” Revised version of Church History article (above) in Peter P. Hinks and Stephen Kantrowitz eds. All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry (Cornell University Press, 2013), 131-154.
"Culture and Social Order in American History" in David Bromley ed. Religion and the Social Order:New
Developments in Theory and Research I (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1991), 73-90.
Non-Refereed Publications
“American Religion and Class.” Religion and American Culture, 15:1 (Winter 2005), 2-8.
"Promise Keepers and Culture Wars," Religion and the News, I:1 (Summer 1998), 4-5, 18.
"On Lay Monasticism." Editor. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 9:2 (1977), 129-150.
"Toward a Post-Liberal Church." Sisters Today 61:2 (October 1989), 91-94.
"Lay Catholics at the Seminary." America (September 16, 1978), 158-160.
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Bibliographies
The New Religions: An Annotated Introductory Bibliography. 3rd Edition. Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in America (April 1981), 1-38.
"The Christian - Buddhist Encounter: A Select Bibliography." Editor. Center for the Study of New
Religious Movements in America (April 1979), 1-15.
Selected Book Reviews
Michael W. Homer, Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism (University of Utah Press, 2014). Reviewed in The American Historical Review (forthcoming June 2015).
Cory D.B. Walker, A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for
Democracy in America (Illinois, 2008). Reviewed in The Journal of Religion 90:2 (April, 2010), 250-252.
Sean McCloud, Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies (North Carolina, 2007). Reviewed in The Journal of Religion 90:1 (January, 2010), 113-114.
Sandy Dwayne Martin, For God and Race: The Religious and Political leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood (South Carolina, 1999). Reviewed in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38:2 (June 1999), 318-320.
David D. Hall, ed. Lived Religion in America: Toward A History of Practice (Princeton, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of Religion 79:2 (April 1999), 358-359.
Donald W. Mitchell and James Wiseman O.S.B. eds. The Gethsemani Encounter: A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Christian Monastics (Continuum, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies 19 (1999), 232-235.
Thomas A. Tweed, Our Lady of Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (Oxford, 1997). Reviewed in The American Historical Review 104:1 (February, 1999), 223-224.
Martin E. Marty, The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good (Harvard, 1997). Reviewed in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66:3 (Fall, 1998), 689-691.
Robert A. Orsi, Thank-You St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Lost Causes (Yale, 1996). Reviewed in the U.S. Catholic Historian 15:4 (Fall 1997), 127-129.
Julius H. Rubin, Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America (Oxford, 1994). Reviewed in The Journal of Social History 29:2 (Winter 1995), 439-441.
Robert S. Ellwood, The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern (Rutgers, 1994). Reviewed in Christian Century 112:4 (August 16-23, 1995), 791-793.
Other book reviews in The Journal of American History, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, The Journal of Religious Research, and The International Journal of Comparative Religion.
Miscellaneous
“Learn About Religions,” Guest Column Alligator (Student newspaper, University of Florida), April 6, 2007
Wrote and edited seven issues of Connections, the Department of Religion Newsletter, from 2004-2008 including “The 60thAnniversary of the Department of Religion (1946-2006)” Fall, 2006, 2-6.
“The Media and Promise Keepers.” CLAS Notes (University of Florida), January 1999, 7-8.
"Is Football a Religion?" Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council XXI:2 (Fall 1998), 50.
"Freemasonry." The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.Robert Wuthnow, editor. (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998), 276-277.
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES
“Expanding the Field: Freemasonry in American Religious History,” inaugural lecture on American Fraternalism, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, April 7, 2015.
“What Freemasons Nee to Know about American Religious History” Address to the Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Kn owledge, Harrisburg, PA October 18, 2014.
“Society of Secrets: Freemasonry and American Culture,” Homer J. Armstrong Lecture in Religion, Kalamazoo College, October 2010.
“The Post-College Spiritual Journey,” invited lecture, Amherst College, May 30, 2008.
“The Promise and Pitfalls of Teaching Comparative Religion,” University of Chicago, Divinity School, February 2003.
“Fraternal Orders in American Religious History,” St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Spring 1998.
"Fraternal Orders and the Re-Imagining of American Religious History," Union Theological Seminary, New York City, April 1998.
"Women in the Churches, Men in the Lodges?" Spiritual Frontiers Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, February 1998.
"Fraternal Orders and American Religious History," Drew Theological School, March 1997.
“The Many Meanings of the American Revolution: A Look at the Dutch and Yankee Community of Albany, New York 1754-1836,” Daughters of the American Revolution, December 1996.
"Jonathan Blanchard, the National Christian Association and Late Nineteenth Century Anti-Masonry," New York Grand Lodge of Free And Accepted Masons, April 1994.
INVITED CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
“The Historiography of American Religion,” Seminar presentation to American Studies graduate students, history department, Boston University, April 7, 2015.
“The Uses of Freemasonry for the Center for Religion and Politics,” Danforth Center for Religion and Politics, Washington University, St. Louis, March 2013.
"The Gendering of American Religious History," Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, October 1997.
"Constructing Frontiers" and "Contrasting Regions" Pew Fellows Conference, Yale University, May 1997.
"Wild Men and Promise Keepers: Men and American Protestantism in Historical Perspective," Harvard University, September 1996.
"Gender and Religion Across Race, Class, and Denominational Lines," Department of History, University of Florida, March 1995.
"The Family and Religion in American History," Religion, Culture and Family Project, University of Chicago, September 1994.
"’Why Don’t You Enter the Craft?’: The Historian and the Subject” Conference on the State of American Catholic History, Princeton University, June 1994.
"Gender and Theology in the Nineteenth Century," the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, April 1994.
"Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1920," the Religious Institutions and Society Colloquia Series, Yale University, March 1994.
“Gender and Religion in the late Nineteenth Century,” Center for the Study of Religion in America, Princeton University, September 1993.
INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AS A DISCUSSANT/PANELIST
“The Many Christianities of the American Past,” session discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2011.
“Women, Religion, and Submission,” session discussant Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2007.
“Manhood, Race, and Christianity, 1880-1930,” session discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2004.
“Robert Orsi’s Approach to Religious Studies,” panel comment at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 2002.
“Madeline Southard’s Contribution to Women’s Ecclesial Rights,” panel discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Church History, January 2001.
“Grant Wacker’s Heaven Below,” panel comment at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 2001.
“George Marsden’s Christian Scholarship,” panel comment at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2000.
"Robert Bellah's Sociology of Religion: Toward An Holistic Vision," panel comment at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1997.
"Are We All Hungry Ghosts?" panel comment at the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1995.
“Response to Critics,” author meets critics session on The Rude Hand of Innovation - Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1632-1836, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 1991.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Freemasonry and the Colonial Public Sphere,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2012.
“Perspectives on Religion in the Americas,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2008.
“Freemasonry and American Religious History,” International Conference on Freemasonry, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2007.
"Freemasonry, Gender, and Race in the Late Nineteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 1997.
"Wild Men and Promise Keepers: Men and American Protestantism in Historical Perspective," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1996.
"After the Revivals: The Resurgence of Freemasonry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1996.
"The Author's Voice and the Writing of American Religion," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1995.
"Prince Hall Freemasonry: Race, Class, Region and Gender in late Nineteenth Century Protestant Culture," Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 1993.
"The Church and the Lodge: Gender Tensions, Region, and Theology in Late Nineteenth Century Protestant Culture," Annual Meeting of the Canadian American Studies Association, October 1993.
"Gender and Social Class in Late Nineteenth Century American Protestantism," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1991.
"Women and Men in Nineteenth Century American Religious Culture," Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Dublin, Ireland, July 1991.
"Rodney Stark's Sociology of American Religious History," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 1989.
"Culture and Social Order in American History," Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, August 1989.
"Culture and Social Order in Early Nineteenth Century Albany, New York," Conference on New York History, April 1989.
"Cultural Submission and Cultural Dominance: Anglo-Dutch Conflict in Colonial Albany, New York," Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, November 1988.
"Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 1987.
"The Social Sources of New School Presbyterian Revivals in Albany, New York, 1828-1836," Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 1986.
"The Social Origins of Civil Religion in Albany, New York," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 1985.
MISCELLANEOUS AND LOCAL PRESENTATIONS
“The Gainesville Catholic Worker Turns Four,” Gainesville Catholic Worker House, February 2008
“Spirituality and Health,” Conference on Complementary Medicine, Tallahassee Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute, March 2000.
“Spirituality and Health Care,” presented with Dr. Allen Neims to the Complementary Medicine Conference in Primary Care sponsored by the Suwanee River Area Health Education Center, October 1999.
“In Search of a Common Path,” Florida Humanities Council Summer Seminar, Tampa, Florida, June 1999.
"Sports and Religion in American Culture," Florida Humanities Council, July 1998.
"The Silent Dialogue: Spiritual Journeys Across Traditions," Jacksonville, Florida Interfaith Council, May 1997.
“The Challenge to Use Our Gifts Wisely,” Keynote Address to the Golden Key Society, University of Florida, Fall 1988.
“Sociology of Religion and American Religious History: Retrospect and Prospect,” Keynote Address at the American Studies Banquet, University of Florida, September 1987.
June, 2015
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