VITAE for Amy L. Koehlinger
AMY L. KOEHLINGER
School of History, Philosophy and Religion
Oregon State University
306 Milam Hall
Corvallis OR 97331
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University. (2012-)
Associate Professor, American Religious History, Religion Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State University. (2009-2012)
Assistant Professor, American Religious History, Religion Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State University. (2002-2008)
Visiting Fellow, Christian Thought and Practice, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. (2003-2004)
Education
Yale University
2002. Ph.D., Religious Studies. Specialization: North American Religious History, U.S. Catholicism. Dissertation: From Selma to Sisterhood: Race and Transformation in Catholic Sisterhoods in the 1960s.
University of Oregon
- M.A., U.S. History.
Indiana University
1991. B.A., Religious Studies (with honors), Political Science.
Fellowships
Colloquium Fellow, “Sports Writing and the Writing Sport,” Rice University and Oxford University, 2012-2013.
Seminar Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion
and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 2003-2005.
Residential Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2003-2004.
Honors and Awards
Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida State University, 2009.
Hoffer Award, 2009, for The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s.
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
American Academy of Religion
American Catholic Historical Association
Select Publications
Books
Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Manuscript in preparation, under contract for delivery 2013).
From Charity to Justice: A History of Franciscan Social Apostolates in the U.S. Stanford University Press for the Academy of American Franciscan History, Berkeley, California. (Draft manuscript).
The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Reviewed in: Catholic News Service July 3, 2007; Women’s Studies, Vol. 36, No. 5 (July 2007), 389-393; Choice, Vol. 45, No. 2 (October 2007); Church History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (December 2007), 876-877; American Catholic Studies, review symposium, Vol. 118, No. 4 (Winter 2007), 63-72; Alabama Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 2008), 68-70; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 94, No. 3 (July 2008), 611-612. Nominated for the Grawmeyer Award, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. Recipient Hoffer Award.
Book Chapters
“Catholic Distinctiveness and the Challenge of American Denominationalism,” Interpreting Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future. 7-30, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008.
“Are you the White Sisters or the Black Sisters?: Women Confounding Categories of Race and Gender,” The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. 253-278, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Reviewed in the Journal of American History, Vol. 94, No. 3 (December 2007); American Historical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (June 2007); Church History, Vol. 76, No. 4, (December 2007); Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 94, No. 1 (January 2008)
Articles and other publications
“History of Sports and Religion in the United States and Britain” in the Oxford Handbook of Sports History, Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson, eds. (accepted, in final copyedit)
Lead review, symposium on Anne Butler, Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920in American Catholic Studies (Vol. 124, No. 1 (spring2013), 65-68.
“By Whose Authority? U.S. Women Religious and the Vatican: Conflict and Historical Context,” invited cover article, American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame. Vol 39, No. 2, (Fall 2012).
“Blood and Adrenaline,” editor’s introduction to review roundtable on Manuel Vasquez, More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 24, No. 5 (Fall 2012).
“American Sisters Haven’t Strayed. The Vatican Has,” Religion and Politics, July 2012.
Named “One of the Week’s Best Longreads” by The Daily Beast, July 27, 2012.
“Before there were Nuns on the Bus, there were Nuns in Station Wagons,” Harvard University Press Blog, July 12, 2012
Review Symposium on Tom Tweed, America’s Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation’s Capital in American Catholic Studies, Vol. 122, No. 4 (Winter, 2011), 77-81.
Winner of the Catholic Press Association Prize for Best Review, 2011.
“Knights of Columbus” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Academia and Aggiornamento: the Social Sciences and Postconciliar Reform among American Sisters,” U.S. Catholic Historian 26:4(Fall 2007), 63-83.
“Demythologizing Catholic Women Religious in the 1960s.” Journal of Southern Religion, Vol. X (December 2007), 1-5.
Response to review symposium on The New Nuns, (reviews by Christine Anderson, Ann Harrington, Greg Hite, Dolores Liptak), American Catholic Studies, Vol. 118, No. 4 (Winter 2007), 72-77.
“Race Relations Needs the Nun: Sources of Continuity and Change in the Racial Apostolate of the 1960s," U.S. Catholic Historian, 24: 4 (Fall 2005), 39-59.
“‘Let Us Live for Those Who Love Us’: Faith, Family, and the Contours of Manhood Among the Knights of Columbus in Late Nineteenth-Century Connecticut,” Journal of Social History 38: 2 (Winter 2004), 455-469.
Other Additional Projects
Co-editor, Handbook of American Catholicism (New York: Oxford University Press), for publication in 2014.
Teaching
Oregon State University
HST 415 Religion Through American Literature
HST 407 Religion in American History research seminar
HST/PHL 399 Religion Through Film
HST/PHL 210 Religion in the U.S.
Graduate Courses, FSU
Rel 6596 Religion and Social Reform in the United States
Rel 6596 Theory, Practice, and Application of Ethnography to Historical Research
Rel 5937 Recent Historiography of American Catholicism
Rel 5937 Gender and Religion
Rel 5937 U.S. in the 20th Century
Rel 5565 Modern U.S. Catholicism
Undergraduate Courses, FSU
Rel 4564 U.S. Catholic Writers
Rel 4564 American Catholicism in the Conciliar Era
Rel 4564 Religion, Sports, Gender in the U.S.
Rel 4404 What is Religion? What is Religious Embodiment?
Rel 3128 The Catholic Experience in America
Rel 3128 Religion and Sport
Rel 2121 Religion in the United States
Service
Oregon State University
Collaborator, Phronesis Initiative, Philosophy Department (2012-)
Committee Member, Philosophy Department Disbursement Committee, (2012-)
Committee Member, Search Committee, Medieval Europe, History Department, (2012-)
Organizer, Film Series, “Religion Through Film” (2012)
Co-Director, OSU Religious Studies Student Association, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion (2012-)
Coordinator, Religious Studies Faculty Reading Group, School of History, Philosophy and Religion (2012-)
Coordinator, Lunch Bunch meetings, School of History, Philosophy and Religion (2012-)
Referee, Spring Creek Project (2012)
Referee, School of Language, Culture, and Society (2013)
Reviewer for Journals
(2012). Pacific Historical Review
(2010, 2012). Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.
(2011). Religion and American Culture.
(2009). Journal of Feminist Studies.
(2008, 2010). American Catholic Studies.
(2003). Journal of Religious Ethics.
Reviewer for Presses
(2006-2012). University of North Carolina Press.
(2009- 2011). New York University Press.
(2003, 2008-2012). Oxford University Press.
(2010-2012). Fordham University Press.
(2010) University of Notre Dame Press.
(2009). Harvard University Press.
(2006, 2008, 2009). University of California Press.
(2005). Scholastic Press.
(2005). Cambridge University Press.
Service to Professional Associations
Member, Dissertation Award Committee, Catholic Historical Association (2012-)
Co-chair, Roman Catholic Studies Section, American Academy of Religion (2010-).
Member, Steering Committee, North American Religions Section, American Academy of Religion (2009-).
Member, Steering Committee, Religion and Sport Consultation, American Academy of Religion (2010-)
Member, Steering Committee, Roman Catholic Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, (2006-2009).
Member, Working Group on Continuity and Change in 20th-century U.S. Catholicism, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, (2005).
Consultations
“Trailblazers in Habits” documentary film about the Maryknoll Sisters. (2011-2012).
Historical Research Associates: Women’s Rights National Historical Park Project, Seneca Falls, New York (2007).
Hart Film: “Sisters of Selma” documentary for the Public Broadcasting System (2004-2005).
Service to the Community
Acting Chair, Board of Directors, Corvallis Environmental Center (2013-)
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