Kathryn Gin
Stanford, B.A.
My work focuses on religion in late eighteenth and nineteenth century America. I am particularly interested in the intersections between beliefs about race, culture, and religion, and in the ways in which ideas function in society. My dissertation examines how the concept of damnation was preached, received, contested, and deployed in America between the revolutionary era and the Civil War. Jon Butler and Harry Stout are my advisors; John Mack Faragher and Carlos Eire complete my committee. My orals fields were in American History to Reconstruction, American Religious History to Reconstruction, and The Afterlife, Evil, and Death in the Western Christian Tradition. My teaching experience includes assisting courses on the American West and African American history.
Originally from California, I received my BA in History from Stanford, where I first began looking at the fuzziness between ideas about religion, culture, and race in the work of home and foreign missionaries in Gold Rush California.
