Jacob Hiserman

Jacob Hiserman

Degree Program: PhD

Bio

Advisors

Specialty

United States History
Religious History
Southern History

Education

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

Research Interests

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

Current Projects

  • A dissertation entitled “Tradition in Peril: Liturgy and the Formation of Collegiate Identity at 19th-Century Southern Christian Colleges.”
  • A journal article manuscript about a liturgical controversy at 19th-century Sewanee, the University of the South.

Recent Publications

  • review of Pious Imperialism: Spanish Rule and the Cult of Saints in Mexico City by Cornelius Conover (University of New Mexico Press, 2019), Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26, no. 3 (2022): 314-317.

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