Geoff Pollick received the B.A. in Religion from the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Wash.), the M.A.R. from the Claremont School of Theology (Claremont, Calif.), and is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in Drew University's Graduate Division of Religion (Madison, N.J.).

His research interests include the history of religion in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, critical theories of religion, religion and modern/modernist culture, and the historiogrpahy of religion in America.

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Geoffrey N. Pollick
gpollick (at) drew (dot) edu

EDUCATION

Drew University, Madison, N.J., expected 2011
Doctor of Philosophy (A.B.D.)            
            Graduate Division of Religion, Historical Studies in U.S./American Religion                                         Dissertation: "'Still There Shall Be Gods': Imagining Religion in Modernist America, 1890-1930"
            Advisor and Dissertation Chair: Dr. J. Terry Todd
            Dissertation Committee: Dr. Morris L. Davis, Dr. C. Wyatt Evans
                                   
Drew University, Madison N.J., December, 2009
Master of Philosophy                        
           Comprehensive Examinations, qualified with distinction.
           Examination Subjects:
                   American Religious History, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries;
                   American Religious History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries;
                   Theory of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge;
                   Conceiving and Concealing "Religion" in American History.

Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, Calif., 2006
Master of Arts in Religion
            Thesis: "Converting to Resistance: William Apess and the Struggle for Native History"
            Committee: Dr. Ted A. Campbell, Dr. John R. Fitzmier

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash., 2002
Bachelor of Arts, Department of Religion                                                                

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Adjunct Instructor, Religious Studies, New York University
-Spring 2009, V90.0650, Topics in Religious Studies: American Evangelicalism

Adjunct Lecturer, Drew University
-Summer 2010, LOGON 203, History of Christianity: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (online course; 12-week survey from second to twenty-first centuries; developing course content and delivery system during 2009-2010 academic year)
-Summer 2009, PASTH 681, Language and Learning in Theological Education (developmental speaking component in an intensive for international students; co-instructed)
-Fall 2008/January 2009, CRCUL 724/725, Native American Religions of the U.S. Southwest, Cross-Cultural Immersion Course (classroom and field components, co-instructed with Dr. Herbert Huffmon)

Teaching Assistant, Drew University
-Fall 2009, CHIST 202, Church History I, Dr. Catherine Peyroux  
-Fall 2008, LOGON 902, American Jesus: Representing Christ in U.S. Cultures, Dr. J. Terry Todd (online course)
-Fall 2008, CHIST 202, Church History I, Dr. Catherine Peyroux                                   
-Spring 2008, CHIST 203, Church History II, Dr. J. Terry Todd                                                       

Other Experience
Research Assistant to Dr. J. Terry Todd, Drew University, 2007-2008
Web Coordinator, Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University, 2007-Present
Research Assistant to Dr. John R. Fitzmier, Claremont School of Theology, 2005

PUBLICATIONS

Work in Progress
"The Pied Piper of American Modernism: H. L. Mencken's Early Encounters with Nietzsche's Philosophy." Under revision for journal submission.
"'Wickedness Walks about in Its Shirt Sleeves': Commerce, Christianization, and the Economics of Race in United Brethren Youth Print Culture." Under revision for journal submission.

Editorial Work
Indexed and proofed Morris L. Davis, The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era (New York: New York University Press, 2007).

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

Untitled paper on Max Eastman, modernism, and definitions of religion, February 2010
            Columbia University Seminar on Religion in New York

"Converting to Resistance: Reading William Apess's Struggle for Native History" March 2008
            American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting: New Brunswick, New Jersey

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Graduate Division of Religion Merit Scholarship, Drew University, 2006-Present
Liggett Religious Leadership Award, University of Puget Sound, 2001-2002
Jesse Trane Burwell Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, 2001-2002
President's Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, 1998-2002
Puget Sound Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, 1998-2002

 

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Drew University
Co-Chairperson, Graduate Division of Religion Student Association, 2007-2008
Faculty Search Committee, History of Christianity, 2007-2008
Student Convener, Historical Studies Area, 2007-2008

Claremont School of Theology
Faculty Search Committee, History of Christianity, 2005-2006

University of Puget Sound
Religious Organizations Council, 2000-2001

 

LANGUAGES

German, Reading Knowledge
Koine Greek, Low Intermediate
Attic Greek, Low Elementary

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Religion                                                                                                        
American Society of Church History                                                                                         
Organization of American Historians