Daniel K. Williams
Department of History
678-839-6046
Education
Ph.D., History, 2005.
Dissertation: “From the Pews to the Polls:
The Formation of a Southern Christian
Right.”
Advisor:
James T. Patterson
M.A., History, 2000.
B.A., History and Classics,
1999. Graduated summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa.
Published
Monographs
God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Journal
Articles and Book Chapters
“The GOP’s Abortion Strategy: Why Pro-Choice Republicans Became Pro-Life in the
1970s,” Journal of Policy History (forthcoming in fall 2011).
“Voting for God and the GOP: The Role of
Evangelical Religion in the Emergence of
the Republican South,” in Painting the South Red: When, Where, Why, and How the
South Became
Republican, ed.
Glenn A. Feldman (forthcoming in 2011).
“Evangelical Economics: Reexamining Christian Political Culture from a Market-Based
Perspective,” Reviews in American History (forthcoming in early 2011).
“Jerry
Falwell’s Sunbelt Politics: The Regional Origins of the Moral Majority,” Journal
of Policy History, 22 (2010): 125-147.
“Reagan’s Religious Right: The Unlikely
Alliance between Southern Evangelicals and a
California Conservative,” in Ronald Reagan and the 1980s, edited by
Gareth Davies and Cheryl Hudson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
“The Cross and the Elephant: Southern White Evangelicals’ Commitment to the
Republican
Party, 1960-1994,” Proceedings
of the South Carolina Historical
Association, 2005.
Magazine and
Encyclopedia Articles
“
Unresolved,” Sacred
History Magazine, November / December 2006.
“Southern
Baptists and the Culture War On School Prayer,” Sacred History Magazine,
November / December 2006.
“Fundamentalism,”
in The Roaring Twenties, Great
Depression, and World War II,
1920-1945, edited by Kimberly Porter, in the Conflicts in American History
Series
(Facts on File, forthcoming).
Biographical
entries on William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and Aimee Semple
McPherson, in The
Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and World War II,
1920-1945, edited by Kimberly Porter, in the Conflicts in American History
Series
(Facts on File, forthcoming).
Articles
for Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars
(M.E. Sharpe, 2010): Bill Clinton;
James Dobson; and Pat Robertson.
Articles
for Postwar
Economic History (M.E. Sharpe, 2007): Evangelical Christianity; Christian
Right; Southern Strategy; Christian Coalition; Roe v.
Wade; Election of 1964; Election of 1980; Election of 1984; and Election of
1988.
“Fundamentalist Politics and Religious Freedom,” in The
Encyclopedia of Religious
Freedom (Routledge, 2003).
Book Reviews
Review of Charles L. Cohen and Paul
S. Boyer, ed., Religion and the Culture
of Print in
Modern America, for Evangelical Studies Bulletin, 73 (Winter 2009-10).
Review of Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and
the
Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, for Patterns of Prejudice, 44 (2010): 393-395.
Review of John G. Turner, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ:
The Renewal of
Evangelicalism in Postwar America, for Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Summer
2009).
Review of George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, for
Fides et
Historia (Summer / Fall 2006).
Review of Craig S. Pascoe et al., ed., The American South in the Twentieth Century, for
The
Review of William E. Leuchtenburg, The White House Looks South: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon Johnson,
for H-Net (online review), June 2006.
Conference Papers and Presentations
“God, Dixie, and the GOP: Republican Partisanship among Southern Evangelicals from
Hoover
to Nixon.” 2010 Policy History
Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2010.
“Tracing the Culture Wars in the 1960s: Richard Nixon and the Shift in Evangelical
Politics from Anti-Catholic to Anti-Secular.” 2010 Annual Meeting of the
Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, April 2010.
“How did the GOP Become God’s Own Party? Evangelical Pastors, Republican
Politicians, and the Making of America’s Christian Right.” American Political History Seminar Series, Boston University, September 2008.
“‘A
Protestant Strategy for the Sixties’: The Effect of the 1960 Presidential
Election on
Evangelical Political Mobilization.” 2008 Policy History Conference,
“Jerry
Falwell’s Sunbelt Religion: The Christianity of a Suburban Majority.” 2007
Annual Meeting of the Southern
Historical Association,
“Cold
War Christians in the ‘Age of Reagan’: The Christian Right’s View of Foreign
Policy, 1980-1992.” 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations,
“The
Fundamentalist Sixties: Conservative Evangelicals’ Political Transformation
from
1960-1969.” New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping
of Global Consciousness Conference, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, June
2007.
Commentator, “Faith and Economics in the Making of the Modern Right,” Panel at the
2007
Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians,
March 2007.
“Armageddon in
Politics.” 2007 Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association,
“From Cold Warriors to Christian Crusaders: How the Anticommunism of the 1950s Led
to the Christian Right of the 1980s.” Conference in Honor of James T. Patterson,
University
of
“The Republican Party and Abortion
in the 1970s.” Meeting of the
for the History of
Medicine, National Library of Medicine,
“The Republican Party and Abortion: The Role of a Religious Issue in a Partisan
Agenda.” 2006 Annual Meeting of the Organization of
American Historians,
“‘The Right to Be Treated as a Woman’: Christian Anti-ERA Activists and Female
Empowerment in the
1970s.”
“Reagan’s
Religious Right: The Unlikely Alliance between Southern Evangelicals and a
“Labeling
Conservative Protestants: Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism as American
Religious Identities.” Under Construction: Conference on the Study
of Religion,
“The
Pastors Who Did Not March: Southern White Fundamentalists and the Civil Rights
Movement.” Race and Place Conference,
“The Cross and the Elephant: Southern White Evangelicals’ Commitment to the
Republican
Party, 1960-1994.”
Teaching Experience
Assistant
Professor, Department of History, 2005 to present.
Instructor,
Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, 2001-5.
Instructor,
Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, 2003-4.
Instructor, Summer
Studies, 2005.
Teaching
Assistant, Department of History, 2000-4.
Courses Taught
American Diplomacy (undergraduate)
American Religion and Politics (graduate seminar and undergraduate lecture course)
American Religion since 1800 (undergraduate / graduate)
Historiography (graduate seminar)
Recent America: The United States since 1945 (undergraduate / graduate)
United States History to 1865 (undergraduate)
United States History since 1865 (undergraduate)
US Politics since 1900 (undergraduate / graduate)
Awards and Fellowships
University
of West Georgia College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award,
2009.
J.
David Griffin Award for Superior Teaching, History Department, University of
West
Georgia, 2009.
University
of West Georgia Learning Resources Committee Faculty Research Grant,
2007-8.
Dissertation
Fellowship, Brown University, 2004-5.
Gerald
R. Ford Foundation Research Grant, 2002.
Lynn E.
May, Jr., Study Grant, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, 2002.
Service
Director of three M.A. thesis committees, University of West
Georgia, 2008-2010.
Director of one M.A. non-thesis exam committee, University
of West Georgia, 2007.
Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, University of West Georgia, 2007-
2010.
National History Day Judge for
Georgia National History Day Competition, 2006-2010.
External reviewer for Blackwell, Oxford
University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, University
Press of Florida, Journal of Policy
History, Annual Review of Political
and
Military Sociology, and Social Identities.
Professional
Membership
American
Historical Association
Organization
of American Historians
Southern
Historical Association