Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 2010 - Present
Max Forrester
Curriculum Vitae, March 2015
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Profile
I am a PhD candidate with major academic fields in pre and post-Civil War American history, and minor fields in American religious history and Latin American history. My dissertation, “Competing Destinies: Religious and Political Conflict in the Southwest Borderlands, 1803-1848,” investigates the relationship between religion and politics in the nineteenth century Southwestern borderlands. Through an examination of Anglo-American, Mexican, Francophone, and Indian polities, I contend that the course of the region’s history was largely shaped by the residents themselves and their competing ideas of destiny.
Education
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 2010 - present
Graduate Student, Department of History doctoral program
Colgate University1999-2003
Bachelor of Arts in English
Awards and Fellowships
University of Notre Dame
Cushwa Center Research Travel GrantSpring 2015
University of Texas at Austin
William and Madeleine Welder Smith Research Travel AwardSpring 2014
Washington University
Humanities Digital Workshop FellowshipSummer 2012
Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship in American Culture Studies2010-15
Frankel Fellowship 2010-11
Publications
Review in Grant Wacker’s America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation in The Common Reader. Forthcoming.
Max Forrester ~ CV
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Washington University
- “Reading Early Modern Politics Through Game of Thrones” Spring 2015
(Primary Instructor, Alexendre Dubé)
- “History of US Foreign Relations: 1920-1989” Fall 2014Spring 2014
(Primary Instructor, Elizabeth Borgwardt)
- “Western Civilization I”Fall 2013
(Primary Instructor, Derek Hirst)
- “Law in American Life: 1776 to the Present”Spring 2013
(Primary Instructor, David Konig)
- “Freedom, Citizenship, and the Making of American Life”Fall 2012
(Primary Instructor, Peter Kastor)
- “The American City in the 19th and 20th Centuries”Spring 2012
(Primary Instructor, Margaret Garb)
- “The American Frontier, 1776-1848”Fall 2011
(Primary Instructor, Peter Kastor)
Teaching Assistant, American Culture Studies, Washington University
- “Americans and their Presidents”Fall 2014
(Primary Instructor, Peter Kastor)
Presentations
History of the Future Conference, Washington UniversityOctober 2014
- “Borderlands,” Panel Chair and Commenter
Graduate Research Series, Washington UniversityApril 2012
- “The Lost Tribes of Israel: Mormon-Indian Relations in Mid-Nineteenth Century Utah”
Service
Washington University
- Chair, Graduate History Association Fall 2014
- Assistant Coordinator, Graduate History Association annual conference Fall 2014
- Assistant Coordinator, “The City Seminar” speaker series2012-14
- Teaching Assistant Liaison, Graduate History Association 2012-13
- Peer Mentor Coordinator, Department of History2011-15
- At Large Representative, Graduate History Association2011-12
- Coordinator, Graduate Reading Series2011-12
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association2010-present
Organization of American Historians2010-present
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic2012-present
Foreign Languages
French
- Near native fluency (reading, writing, and speaking)
Spanish
- Intermediate level (reading and speaking)