Dr. Mary Cayton
Office hours: M 2:00-3:00, T 2:00-3:30
Department Profile
Title(s):
Professor of History; Affiliate of 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:
- 19th century United States history, especially social, cultural and intellectual
- History of religion in the U.S.
- History of print and communications in the U.S.
- Historical methods, theories, and models
Courses Recently Taught:
- AMS 205 Introduction to American Studies
- HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
- HST 357 Gilded Age America
- HST 359 Junior Honors Colloquium
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Gilded Age Entrepreneurs
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Walt Whitman’s America
- HST 601 Historical Methods
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, University of North Carolina Press, 2010
- "Canonizing Harriet Newell: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement in New England, 1740-1840," Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960, ed. Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie A. Shemo, Duke University Press, 2010
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
- Research Fellowship, Boston Athenaeum/Congregational Library, "'A Divine and Supernatural Light': Religious Emotion and the Rise of Evangelical Culture in America, 1740-1840," 2010
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.