Katherine M. Faull

Anthropology and the German Enlightenment : perspectives on humanity

This volume is a collection of essays on various notions of the human state during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period in Germany. The book includes articles on Madame de Stael, Herder and India, Kant and race, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, Lichtenberg, the Brothers Grimm, and Humboldt.

Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting Long-Term Student–Faculty Place-Based Collaboration

In this essay, the authors present a case study of how an ongoing, multi-faculty, interdisciplinary DH project focused on the Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania has created, and continues to explore, ways in which students can excel both inside the classroom and outside. These DH projects involve undergraduates working with faculty on an unfolding expansive research project that affords otherwise unachievable opportunities for undergraduate student engagement, the development of new skills, and meaningful ongoing interaction between the institution and community that have, in turn, furthered the scope and scale of the project.

Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America (review)

Radical pietism is rapidly becoming a fertile field of inquiry in the area of church history. With the appearance of W. R. Ward’s Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670–1789 (Cambridge,2006) and Thomas Kidd’s The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (New Haven, 2007), Aaron Fogleman’s foray into radical religion in early America is in good critical company. However, whereas Ward invites the reader to consider the significant role of Kabbalah, alchemy, and mysticism in the development of an alternative expression of faith in the long eighteenth century, and Kidd examines the broader historical and social context of evangelical Christianity in the North American colonies, Fogleman chooses instead to focus narrowly on the eighteenth-century polemic against the Protestant sect of the Moravians.