Mary Kupiec Cayton

Contact

• caytonmk@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 2454 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5121
• Office hours: T 1:30-2:30, R 2-3

Titles

• Chair, Department of History
• Professor of History and American Studies
• Affiliate of the Department of Comparative Religion
• Affiliate of the Women's Studies Program

Education

• PhD 1981, Brown University
• AM, Brown University
• BA, University of Virginia

Teaching and Research Interests

• American cultural and intellectual history
• History of religion in the U.S.
• American Studies
• History of print and communications in the U.S.

Recently taught courses

• AMS 205 Introduction to American Studies
• HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Gilded Age Entrepreneurs
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Walt Whitman’s America

Selected Publications

• Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845, University of North Carolina Press, 1989
• Co-Editor (with Peter Williams), Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, 3 volumes, Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York), Simon & Schuster (London), 2001
• Co-Editor (with Elliott Gorn and Peter Williams), Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 volumes, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993
• “Harriet Newell’s Story: Women, The Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement,” A History of the Book in America, ed. Robert Gross and Mary Kelley, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

Selected Grants and Awards

• Honors and Scholars Medallion, for outstanding contributions to the Miami University Honors and Scholars Program, 2007
• Co-Principal Investigator, President’s Academic Enrichment Award, Miami University, for work to develop a humanities documentary unit, 2007
• Grant Development Coordinator, Campus Heritage Planning Grant, Getty Foundation, 2007

Work in Progress

Mary Kupiec Cayton’s most recent work has focused on religious experience in 18th and 19th century New England. Her current projects include a book-length study of the culture of Congregational evangelicalism.