Church History

Today's featured title: "The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity," by Susanna Elm, University of California Press, 2025 @ucpress ucpress.edu/books/the-impo…

Today's featured title: "The Sons of St Augustine: Art and Memory in the Augustinian Churches of Central Italy, 1256–1370," by Kristztina Ilko, Oxford University Press, 2026 @OxUniPress global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Today's featured title: "The Free Will Baptists: A New History," by J. Matthew Pinson, University of Tennessee Press, 2026. @utennpress utpress.org/9798895270424/…

Today's featured title: "Death and the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity and Emotional Communities," by Maria E. Doerfler, Cambridge University Press, 2025 @CambridgeUP #fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/books/dea…

Today's featured title: "The Passion of Christ and the Making of Christian Selves in Sixteenth-century Germany," by Vincent Evener, Brill, 2025

Today's featured title: "Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200," by Scott G. Bruce, Cornell University Press, 2026 @CornellPress #bookTabs=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178…

Today's featured title: "Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death," by Jessica Barr, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026 @UNDPress undpress.nd.edu/9780268210946/…

A letter of no more than 500 words including an explanation of your project, highlighting its contribution to the history of Christianity; a budget $1000; a summary of the length and extent of your involvement with ASCH A current CV with contact information for 3 references.

To apply: Make sure your ASCH membership is current and send an email indicating your interest in the Wilson Fellowship to asch@churchhistory.org by the deadline of May 15, 2026. Please include the following documents as attachment single pdf attachment:

The ASCH is now accepting applications from its graduate student, independent scholar, and contingent faculty members for a research and travel fellowship of $1000. This fellowship supports work in any area of the history of Christianity.

A letter of no more than 500 words including an explanation of your research project, highlighting its contribution to the history of Christianity; a budget for the $1000; summary of the extent of your involvement with ASCH; current CV with contact information for 3 references

To apply: Make sure your ASCH membership is current and send an email indicating your interest in the Wilson Fellowship to asch@churchhistory.org by the deadline of May 15, 2026. Please include the following documents as attachment single pdf attachment:

Applications are now open for the John F. Wilson Research Fellowship, which gives priority to projects reflecting the work of Wilson: the religious and intellectual life in the American colonies, the relationship between church and state, and religion in contemporary America.

The article will be published in Church History. Nominations are open until July 15, learn more: churchhistory.org/asch-awards/20…

Nominations for the Sidney E. Mead Prize are now open, which is granted to an advanced graduate student or recent PhD for the best unpublished article stemming from dissertation research that contributes significantly to its field and to the history of Christianity more broadly.

Excited to announce that Dr @danjohnsonhymns and I will co-host our 4th annual conference this year at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Call for papers is now alive. Please help us to spread the news. Grateful for the support of @ASChurchHistory and @AFCBS.

Nominations for the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize are now open, which annually honors outstanding scholarship in the history of Christianity by a first-time author. Nominations close April 15, learn more: churchhistory.org/asch-awards/20…

and/or the interactions between Christianity and other religions, in any period and area of the history of Christianity. Nominations close April 15, learn more: churchhistory.org/asch-awards/20… 2/2

Nominations for the Albert C. Outler Prize are now open, which annually honors the best book, published in the prior calendar year, that illumines the diversity of global Christianity, issues of Christian unity and disunity (doctrinal, cultural, institutional), 1/2

Nominations are now open for the Philip Schaff Prize, which annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year. Nominations are open until April 15, learn more here: churchhistory.org/asch-awards/20…