Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt, Assistant Professor

Faculty portrait, contact information, and education.

	Office: Bear Hall 277 Phone: (910) 962-0526 E-mail: brummittj@uncw.edu
	Education Ph.D., Religious Studies, Duke University M.A., Religion, Duke University B.A., Philosophy & Religion and Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington

• Areas of Expertise
  • American Religion (Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam)
  • Visual and Material Cultures
  • Death, Dying, and Mourning
  • Children and Religion
  • Technology and Religion
  • Women and Gender in Religion
  • Protestant relics
  • Contraband Bibles in the Civil War
• Publications
  • "Sacred Relics To-morrow": The Presence of Protestant Relics in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ohio Valley," Ohio Valley History 20, no. 4 (December 2020): 8-32.
  • "The Frontiers of Immortality," in Human, Transhuman, Posthuman: Emerging Technologies and the Boundaries of Homo Sapiens. Edited by Diana Walsh-Pasulka and Michael Bess. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2018.
  • “Black Muslims, White Jesus: Destroying Racial Images of God with CRAID and W.D. Muhammad.” In New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam. Edited by Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg. New York: Routledge, 2017.
  • “George Washington’s Mausoleum: Congressional Debates Over the Work of Monuments.” The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History. October 2017. https://earlyamericanists.com/ 2017/10/16/george-washingtons-mausoleum-congressional-debates-over-the-work-of-monuments/.
  • “Mary Lyman’s Mourning Piece: Protestant Visual Display in Nineteenth-Century America.” Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Online. Yale University, November 2013. https://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/object-narratives/mary-lyman-s-mourning-piece
• Courses Taught
  • PAR 103 Introduction to Religion
  • PAR 125 Great Books of World Religions
  • PAR 225 Women and Religion
  • PAR 230 Judaism, Christianity and Islam
  • PAR 304 American Islam
  • PAR 355 Southern Religion
  • PAR 491 The Material Culture of Native American Religions
  • PAR 491 Christianity in the Civil Rights Movement
  • PAR 491 Women, Religion, and Slavery in the Antebellum United States
  • HON 210 Magic, Religion, and Technology
• Awards
  • Research Travel Award from CAS at UNCW
  • Summer Research Award from CAS at UNCW
  • Filson Fellowship from the Filson Historical Society
  • Amanda and Greg Gregory Fellowship at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
  • Anthony N. B. and Beatrice W. B. Garvan Fellowship in American Material Culture at the Library Company of Philadelphia
  • Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
  • New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellowship Recipient