Jonathan Ebel, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2004. He teaches courses in American religious history focusing on themes and movements that can be traced from century to century: diversity, discord, and dialogue, religion and violence, revivalism and evangelicalism, immigration and migration, as well as more focused seminars on the religious culture of early-twentieth-century America. Jon is currently working on a study of the religious thoughts and lives of American participants in the First World War. He is most interested in studying the place of religion in rendering meaningful the traumatic experiences of individuals and communities. His book, Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the First World War, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Courses Taught
RLST 116 Faith & Self in Global Context
RLST/HIST 235 History of Religion in America
RLST/HIST 236 Religion, Violence, America
RLST 435 Revivalism and Evangelicalism
RLST 436 Religion in America, 1900-1941