• John M. Giggie
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D. Princeton University, 1998
  
  jmgiggie@bama.ua.edu
  
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 1:45-2:45 p.m.

  Research Interests:

• Southern History
• African-American History
• American Religion

Courses Currently Taught:

• American Civilization since 1865 (HY 204)
• The Literature of the Civil War and Sectional Reconciliation

Recent Publications:

• After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Oxford, 2007).
• “Marketing Faith: The Consumer Market and the Origins of the African American Holiness Movement,” SOCIETY (Social Science and Modern Society), Vol. 43, No. 7 (November/December 2006): 50-69.
• “Preachers and Peddlers of God: Ex-Slaves and the Selling of African- American Religion in the South, 1965-1917,” in Commodifying Everything: Consumption and Capitalist Enterprise, ed. Susan Strasser (New York: Routledge, 2003).
• Faith in the Market: Religion and Rise of Urban Commercial Culture, editor, with Diane Winston, (New Brunswick: Rutguers University Press, 2002) .
• Guest Editor, with Diane Winston, Journal of Urban History (May 2002), special edition, “Urban Commercial Culture and Religion in Modern North America.”.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Honors College Alliance Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2007
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Texas at San Antonio, May 2006
• Faculty Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion, Lilly Foundation and Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis, 2003-2005.
• Faculty Fellow, Louisiville Institute for the Study of American Religion, summer 2003
• University Faculty Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003.

Hobbies

• Running, coaching youth soccer, and reading mystery novels.