Christopher Allison

Director
McGreal Center

Adjunct Lecturer, American Studies
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences

Education 
PhD, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
MA, History, Harvard University
MA, American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
BS, Social Sciences Education, Olivet Nazarene University
Selected Exhibitions and Performances  
Faces of Divinity: Envisioning Inclusion for 200 Years, Harvard Divinity School, 2016
Selected Publications 

Protestant Relics: Capturing the Sacred Body in Early America (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

“Capturing the Light: Collecting Quaker Lives,” in The Quaker World, C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant, eds. (London: Routledge, 2021).

“The Numinous Body” in Oxford Handbook of Material Culture and History, eds. Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History - A Contemporary Digital Exhibition," Christopher Allison, John Bell, and Sarah Anne Carter, eds, LaurelX: A Non-Traditional Festschrift in Celebration of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Archives, 2020), https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/laurelx/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history-contemporary-digital-exhibition-christopher-allison.

“Revival Head,” in Object Stories (Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2018-). Online Serial Publication. http://www.chipstone.org/post.php/208/Revival-Head/

“Jamestown’s Relics: Sacred Presence in the English New World” in Conversations: A Journal of the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion. Yale University. http://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/essays/jamestown-s-relics-sacred-presence-english-new-world

 

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