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Jacob Hiserman

Jacob Hiserman

Specialty

  • United States History
  • Religious History
  • Southern History

Bio

Education

  • MA, Baylor University, 2018
  • BA, summa cum laude, Christendom College, 2016

Research Interests

  • Religion & Southern Higher Education
  • Liturgy & Ritual in America
  • American Intellectual History

Current Projects

  • A dissertation on the relationship between liturgical ideas and practices and collegiate identity and traditions in 19th-century U.S. South.
  • A journal article manuscript about a liturgical controversy at 19th-century Sewanee, the University of the South.

Awards & Honors

  • Dissertation Fellow, The University of Alabama Department of History, 2022-2023
  • Charles G. Summersell Fellow in Southern History, The University of Alabama Department of History, 2021-2022
  • Frank Lawrence Owsley Memorial Scholarship, The University of Alabama Department of History, 2020