Daniel C. Dillard
Department of Religion
Florida State University
M05 Dodd Hall
641 University Way
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1520
Phone: (501) 258-7414
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: dcd08@fsu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Student, Florida State University (American Religious History, Department of
Religion)
M.A., University of Denver, 2007 (Department of Religious Studies)
M.A. Thesis: A Genealogy of Religion and the Early American Penitentiary.
First Reader: Luis Leon. Second Reader: Carl Raschke.
B.A., Hendrix College, 2002 (Departments of Religion and English)
Teaching Experience
2010-11
Instructor, Department of Religion, Florida State University,
REL 1300: Introduction to World Religions (2 sections)
REL 2121: Religion(s) in the United States
2009-10
Instructor, Department of Religion, Florida State University,
REL 2121: Religion(s) in the United States (2 sections)
Teaching Asst., Department of Religion, Florida State University,
REL 1300: Introduction to World Religions
2008-09
Instructor, Department of Religion, Florida State University,
REL 2121: Religion(s) in the United States (2 sections)
Teaching Asst., Department of Religion, Florida State University,
REL 2121: Religion(s) in the United States
Professional Employment and Editing Experience
Section Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association, Religion and Literature, 2011
Co-Founder and Co-Editor, The Journal of Posthumanities, 2010-present
News Editor, Religion Compass, 2009-present
Financial Aid Advisor, Office of Financial Aid, University of Denver, 2008
Financial Aid Associate, Office of Financial Aid, University of Denver, 2007
Student Advisor Supervisor, Office of Financial Aid, University of Denver, 2006
Student Advisor, Office of Financial Aid, University of Denver, 2005
Articles
“‘God will put a hook into that man’s jaws, so that he cannot preach’: Religious
Intolerance and the American Transcendentalists,” Hindsight History Journal 4
(2010): 1-20.
“‘What is man but a mass of thawing clay?’: Thoreau, Embodiment, and the NineteenthCentury Posthuman,” The Journal of Posthumanities (forthcoming).
“Religion and Literature,” Religion Compass (forthcoming).
Reference Book Entries
“Abduh, Muhammad.” Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer
and Wade Clark Roof. Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“al-Banna, Hasan.” Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and
Wade Clark Roof. Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Kaczynski, Ted.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, edited by
Wilbur R. Miller. Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Koran/Qur’an.” World of a Slave, edited by Martha Katz-Hyman and Kym Rice. ABCClio/Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
“McVeigh, Timothy.” The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, edited by
Wilbur R. Miller. Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Prison.” Encyclopedia of Muslim American History, edited by Edward Curtis. New
York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010.
“Shariati, Ali.” Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and
Wade Clark Roof. Sage Publications, forthcoming.
“Thoreau, Henry David.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, edited by
Philip DiMare. ABC-Clio, forthcoming.
“Transcendentalism.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Politics in America, edited by
Philip DiMare. ABC-Clio, forthcoming.
“Worship – Muslim.” Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by Charles Lippy and
Peter Williams. Oxford: CQ Press, 2010.
Book Reviews
Review of Nathaniel Deutsch, Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics, Islam,
and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2009. Religious Studies Review (forthcoming).
Review of David S. Williams, From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia’s Religious
Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. Journal of Southern
Religion XII (2010).
http://jsr.fsu.edu/Volume12/Dillard%20on%20Williams.html
Review of Janet Moore Lindman, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America.
Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Religious Studies Review
(forthcoming).
Review of Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 18771920. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal
of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto 2 (2010).
http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/index.
Review of Gregory S. Jackson, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of
American Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Religious Studies
Review 36:2 (June 2010), 162.
Review of Rodney Clapp, Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction:
Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation. Louisville: Westminster John
Knox Press, 2008. Religious Studies Review 36.3 (September 2010), 238.
Review of Liyakat N. Takim, Shi’ism in America. New York: New York University
Press, 2009. NEXT: Emerging Voices of Religious Studies Scholarship 3 (2009).
http://rlst.colorado.edu/Graduates/next-volume-three.html
Review of Robert J. Norrell, Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington.
Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009. Religious Studies Review 37:1 (March
2010), 75-76.
Review of Christine Pawley, Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public
Library in Cold War America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
The Journal of American Culture 34:3 (September 2011).
Review of Sally M. Promey, Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Shakerism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review 2:1 (2011), 159-62.
Review of Karen Isaksen Leonard, Muslims in the United States: The State of Research.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. Intermountain West Journal of
Religious Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Barry Hankins, Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and
Today’s Culture Wars. New York: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2010. Religious
Studies Review (forthcoming).
Paper/Panel Presentations
“‘God will put a hook in that man’s jaws, so that he cannot preach’: Religious
Intolerance and the American Transcendentalists,” Symposium on Religion,
Florida State University, February 2009.
“The American Transcendentalists: A Religious Historiography,” Tennessee Conference
of Historians, Lebanon, TN, September 2009.
“‘He is but dim and misty to me’: Native Americans, Religion, and Popular Culture,”
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Conference, Boston, MA, November 2009.
“Henry David Thoreau, Science, and Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History,” in a
session I organized entitled Science, Salvation, and Rationalism: Innovations in
Nineteenth-Century American Thought, U.S. Intellectual History Conference,
New York, NY, November 2009. Chaired by Charles Capper.
“‘The delicious sense of foreignness’: American Transcendentalism in the Atlantic,”
Symposium on Religion, Florida State University, February 2010.
“‘The simplest religion is the best’: Anxiety and Assurance in Thomas Wentworth
Higginson,” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Conference,
Atlanta, GA, March 2010.
“‘What is man but a mass of thawing clay?’: Thoreau and the Nineteenth-Century
Posthuman,” Symposium on American Literature, Florida State University, April
2010.
“‘Present Another World’: A Study of Religion and Literature Through Mohja Kahf,”
Popular and American Culture Associations in the South Conference. Savannah,
GA. October 2010.
“‘Yes, I carry explosives / They’re called words’: Contested Cultures in Contemporary
American Muslim Literature,” Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference. Chicago, IL. November 2010.
“‘Who are we? Where are we?’: Thoreau, Embodiment, and the Nineteenth-Century
Transformation of Humanity,” Transforming Humanity, a conference at the
University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by The Center for Inquiry, the Penn Center
for Bioethics, and the Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society. Philadelphia, PA.
December 2010.
““I Came Across the World to Write for You”: Transnational Islam in American
Literature," Southern American Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.
February 2011.
"‘Raising People’s Rile: Transnational Muslim Literature in the post-9/11 Era,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference. St. Louis, MO. November
2011.
Awards
Academic Conference Presentation Grant, Congress of Graduate Students, Florida State
University, 2008-11 (3 separate grants)
Academic Conference Support Grant, Congress of Graduate Students, Florida State
University, 2008-11 (3 separate grants)
Departmental Conference Grant, Florida State University, 2008-11 (3 separate grants)
Golden Key International Honor Society (invited), 2008-11
Teaching Assistantship, Florida State University, 2008-present
Departmental Nomination, University Fellowship, Florida State University, 2008
Departmental Nomination, Presidential Fellowship, Florida State University, 2008
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Dean’s Scholarship, University of Denver, 20052007
Research Assistantship, University of Denver, 2005-2007; for Liyakat Takim’s
Shi’ism in America (New York: NYU Press, 2009)
University and Community Service
Co-coordinator, Florida State University English Conference, 2010
Departmental Representative, Graduate Students of the Four Faculties, University of
Denver, 2005-2007
Member, 1998-2002, and Hendrix College Chapter Vice President, 1999-2001, Amnesty
International
Member, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, 1998-2002
Member, Hendrix Animal Welfare Group, 1998-2002
Volunteer, Heifer International (for sustainable development), 1998-2002
Languages
German (intermediate reading, speaking, and written knowledge)
French, Spanish (intermediate reading knowledge)
Association Memberships
American Academy of Religion
American Culture Association
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Popular Culture Association