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Department of Religion
Tufts University
Eaton Hall
Room 316A
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-2237
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Heather Curtis
Assistant Professor
Heather Curtis received her doctorate in the history of Christianity,
with an emphasis on North American religions, from Harvard University in
the spring of 2005. Her research and teaching interests include movements
of religious healing and reform; global Christianity; gender and women's
studies in religion; the religious history of American reform movements;
and the study of spirituality and devotional practice.
Prior to coming to Tufts, Professor Curtis was a Postdoctoral
Fellow and Lecturer on American Religious History at
Harvard University (2005-2007).
Education
Th.D. Harvard University,
M.A. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
B.A. University of Virginia
Research Interests
- Global Christianity
- American Religious History
- Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
- Religion, Health and Healing
- Religion and Reform Movements
- Gender and Women's Studies in Religion
Courses
- Global Christianity
- Introduction to Christianity
- History of Religion in America
- Religion and American Politics
- Women and Religion in America
Publication Highlights
Books:
Articles:
- "Houses of Healing: Sacred Space, Spiritual
Practice and the Transformation of Female Suffering in the Faith Cure Movement,
1870-1890," Church History (September 2006):
598-611.
- "'Acting Faith': Divine Healing as Devotional Practice in
Late-Nineteenth-Century Protestantism," in Practicing Protestants: Histories
of the Christian Life in America, ed. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Leigh Schmidt, and
Mark Valeri (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006),
137-158.
- "Children of
the Heavenly King: Hymns in the Religious and Social Experience of Children,
1780-1850," in Sing Them Over Again To Me: Hymns and Hymn Books in America,
ed. Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2006), 214-234.
- "Visions of Self, Success and Society among Young Men in Antebellum Boston,"
Church History 73:3 (September 2004): 613-634.
- "The International Character of Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing,"
in Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing,
ed. Candy Gunther-Brown with a forward by Harvey Cox
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- "Religion and Community Structures (1803- 1898)" in Religion in America
History, ed. John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield (New York: Blackwell Press,
forthcoming).
- "Theologies of Evolution and Cooperation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,"
in Evolution, Games and God: The Principle of Cooperation,
eds. Sarah Coakley and Martin Nowak (Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2009/10).
- "Healing, Belief and Interpretation in 19th-Century
Protestant America," in Spiritual Healing: Science, Meaning, and Discernment,
ed. Sarah Coakley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2009/10).
Major Awards
- Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American
Society of Church History, 2008.
- Saving the World? The Changing Terrain of American Protestant Missions
Research Grant, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, 2009-2010.
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004.
- Center for the Study of World Religions Dissertation
Fellowship, Harvard University, 2003-2004.
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