Professor
witmerad@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields and specialties
Nineteenth-century United States, locality and community, local history, U.S. in the world, religion
Selected publications and presentations
"Portable Locality: The Lincolns in Springfield and Washington." Conference on Illinois History, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 2024.
"President Lincoln and Locality: National Commitments and Local Involvements in the Civil War Era." Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 2024.
- Winner of the 2023 New England Society Book Award (Historical Nonfiction category)
- Winner of the 2023 Award of Excellence for Publications (large press category), American Association for State and Local History
"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.
"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
- Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
- Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
