Jamie L. Brummitt

Jamie L. Brummitt is an Associate Professor of American religions and material culture at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brummitt earned her PhD from Duke University. Her book Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2025) examines relic veneration, corpse inspection, and the art of mourning from the Protestant Reformation to the early United States. Brummitt also writes about Bibles, death, and relics in the American Civil War.

Education

- PhD in American Religion, Duke University, 2018
- MA in Religious Studies, Duke University, 2012
- BA in Philosophy and Religion; Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2010

Specialization in Teaching

Undergraduate Religion Courses

• PAR 103: Introduction to Religion
• PAR 125: Scriptures of the World’s Religions
• PAR 225: Religion and Gender
• PAR 230: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• PAR 242: Religion in America
• PAR 255: The Bible in America
• PAR 304: American Islam
• PAR 355: Southern Religion
• PAR 390: Religion and Technology

Directed Individual Studies

• 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
• PAR 491: Religious History of the Women’s Rights Movement
• PAR 491: The Bible and Politics in the United States
• PAR 491: Relics and Shrines in Christian History

Research Interests

- Visual and Material Cultures of American Protestantism
- Protestant relics
- Death, Funeral, and Mourning Art in America
- Gender, Race, and Visual Culture in American religions
- Memorialization of George Washington
- African American Deathways in nineteenth-century America
- Death in the the Civil War, Confederate Museums, and Memory Practices
- Materiality of Bibles in the Civil War Era

Professional Service

- Co-chair of the Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit, American Academy of Religion