Associate Professor
witmerad@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields and specialties
Nineteenth-century United States, local history, U.S. in the world, space and place, religion
Selected publications and presentations
"Objects of Faith: 3D Modeling and Printing U.S. Religious History," Material Religion, Vol. 15, No. 1 (February 2019): 115-18.
"Notes Toward a Values-Driven Framework for Digital Humanities Pedagogy" (with Seán McCarthy), Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology (March 2016).
"Agency, Race, and Christianity in the Strange Career of Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce," Church History, Vol. 83, No. 4 (December 2014): 884-923.
"History Harvests: What Happens When Students Collect and Digitize the People's History?" (with William G. Thomas III and Patrick D. Jones), Perspectives on History, American Historical Association (January 2013): 21-23.
"'Home-Like and Yet So Strange!': American Missionaries and Cultural Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Equatorial Africa." American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2012.
"Auguste Comte's Theory of History Crosses the Atlantic," in Charles T. Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, eds., Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 95-112.
"Race, Religion, and Rebellion: Black and White Baptists in Albemarle County, Virginia during the Civil War," in Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget, eds., Crucible of the American Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), 136-64.
Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
American Council of Learned Societies
Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
