09/27/2026
Get to know the moderators of Religion and the American Founding! Read below to hear about their current research:
Professor Baysa’s current book manuscript, Sacred Voices, Printed Silences: The Struggle Against Protestant Dominance in Early American Publishing, is scheduled for publication April 2027. It explores the publishing difficulties faced by racialized and heterodox writers across early British North America.
Professor Trolliger’s current research explores the writings and religious visions of Black Shaker visionary Rebecca Jackson, and the ways religious writing engages questions of race, gender, and social power in nineteenth-century America. Central to her research is understanding the agency of how people explain religious experiences, and what is at stake in those explanations.
Johanna Mueller’s current research, “An American Mission? Nineteenth-Century Missionaries and the Contested Meanings of ‘America,’” focuses on the early American missionary movement, examining how encounters between missionaries and non-Christian peoples influenced competing ideas about Christianity, civilization, race, and American identity.
