Dr. Keith Grant: CV
Assistant Professor of History (Tenure Track), Crandall University
Appointed 1 July 2017
keithsgrant@crandalluniversity.ca
keithgrant.ca
earlycanadianhistory.ca
History Department, Crandall University
P.O. Box 6004, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C 9L7
(506) 858-8970, ext. 142
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of New Brunswick, History, 2017
Dissertation: “Enthusiasm and Loyalty: Emotions, Religion, & Society in British North America”
Supervisor: Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair
Th.M., Regent College, History, 2007
Thesis: “‘Very affecting and evangelical: Andrew Fuller and the evangelical renewal of pastoral theology”
Supervisor: Bruce Hindmarsh
M.Div., Regent College, 2002
B.A. (Honours), Crandall University, History and Biblical Studies, 1996
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017- Assistant Professor of History (Tenure Track), Crandall University (appointed July 1, 2017)
2014-2016 Lecturer, History, Crandall University
2014 Lecturer, History, University of New Brunswick
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2013 Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology. Studies in Baptist History and Thought. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster Press, 2013. (xx + 156 pages)
Articles
2018 “Esther Clark Wright and Recent Themes in Historiography.” Acadiensis, 47 no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2018), 120-123.
2017 “Canadian History Blogging: A Conversation Between Editors.” Co-authored with Tina Adcock, Stacy Nation-Knapper, Beth Robertson, and Corey Slumkoski. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 27, no. 2 (2016): 1-39.
2012 “Plain, evangelical, and affectionate: The preaching of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815).” Crux: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought, 48, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 12-22.
2011 “‘Very Affecting and Evangelical’: Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology.” Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History (2011): 53-63.
Book Chapter
2018 “Have been reading … O how many things brot tears from my eyes”: Sympathetic reading in nineteenth-century Baptist piety,” edited by William L. Pitts, 113-128. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2018.
Book Reviews
2016 Review of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England, by Abram Van Engen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), Fides et Historia, 48.1 (Winter/Spring 2016): 189-191.
2015 Review of Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 18 (2015): 109-110.
2013 Review of Calvin, by Bruce Gordon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). Crux: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought 49.2 (2013): 32-35.
2012 Review of Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland, Jr., edited by Grant Gordon (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2009), Crux: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought 48.4 (2012): 38-41.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Book Manuscripts
(Monograph) Enthusiasm and Loyalty: Emotions, Religion, & Society in British North America
(Edited volume) Jacob Bailey: The Disaffection of a Loyalist – A Primary Source Reader
Articles
“‘The Domesticks’: The agency of apprentices, servants, and farm labourers in a rural colonial Nova Scotia household” (in peer review)
“‘O may those blessed truths have a wide circulation’: Edward Manning and the circulation of books and ideas in Nova Scotia, ca. 1810-1850.”
“The Loyalist Sublime: Jacob Bailey as Nature Writer.”
“‘The Quieting of Possessions’: The use of legislation to effect the Acadian grand derangement.” Co-authored with Elizabeth Mancke and Stephanie Pettigrew.
Digital Humanities
“The Colonial Bookshelf: Tracking the Reading of Colonial Nova Scotians.” Co-investigator, Daniel Samson.
AWARDS, HONOURS, & RESEARCH FUNDING
2018 Nova Scotia Museum Cultural History Research Grant ($1,327) and Brock University Research Seed Grant (BSIG) ($4,212), with collaborator Daniel Samson, for “The Colonial Bookshelf: Tracking the Reading of Colonial Nova Scotians”
2018 Steeves Research Grant, Crandall University ($4000)
2014-2017 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship ($105,000)
2014-2017 Doctoral Scholarship, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation ($21,000)
2014-2017 Magee Third Century Postgraduate Merit Award, UNB ($9,000)
2017 Gale-Shaw Memorial Book Prize, UNB School of Graduate Studies ($350)
2015-2016 Lapidus-Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship for Graduate Research in Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture ($500)
2016 H. H. Stuart Research Fund, Conference Travel Grant, UNB ($1600)
2015 Rare Book School, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Scholarship (declined; scheduling conflict)
2015 Conference Travel Grant, School of Graduate Studies, UNB ($300)
2013-2015 H. H. Stuart Research Fund, Conference Travel Grants, UNB ($800 each)
2014, 2013 Research Travel Grant, Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies, Acadia University ($500 each)
2012-2014 Top-Tier Graduate Funding Award for PhD Studies, UNB ($90,000; accepted 2/4 years)
2013, 2012 Doctoral Scholarships, Institute for Religion and Culture, BC ($10,000, $5000)
2007 History Prize for ThM Thesis, Regent College
1997 Full Academic Entrance Scholarship, Regent College ($9,000)
CONFERENCES
Panels Organized
2019 “Beyond the ‘Intellectual Awakening’: The circulation of books and ideas in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nova Scotia.” Canadian Historical Association / Bibliographical Society of Canada (Joint Session), Vancouver, June (Accepted)
2017 “Early Modern Emotions.” Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference, Fredericton, Oct. 13-4.
2016 “Canadian History Blogging: A Conversation Between Editors.” Canadian Historical Association, Calgary, May 30-June 1 (co-organizer).
2016 “Textual Communities and Religious Networks in Eighteenth-Century British America.” American Historical Association. Co-sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies (invited), and the American Society of Church History, Atlanta, January 7-10.
2015 “The exchange of ideas in Atlantic and local networks: Colonial readers and printers.” Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, June 1-3.
2014 “Printing Evangelicalisms: Evangelical Book Culture Across Three Centuries.” American Society of Church History, Washington, January 2-5.
Papers Presented
2019 “‘O may those blessed truths have a wide circulation’: Edward Manning and the circulation of books and ideas in Nova Scotia, ca. 1810-1850.” Canadian Historical Association / Bibliographical Society of Canada (Joint Session), Vancouver, June (Accepted).
2019 “Loyalists and Revolutionaries in Their Own Words: Using primary sources to help students develop historical thinking skills.” Canadian Historical Association, Vancouver, June (Accepted).
2018 “Knowledge Migrations, Books, and Readers in Nova Scotia: Profiling The Colonial Bookshelf: A Digital Humanities Project.” Joint Conference of the Atlantic Medieval Association & the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, Sackville, NB, Oct. 12.
2017 “I think I feel new Desires”: Unfeeling Enthusiasts in the Culture of Sensibility.” Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference, Fredericton, Oct. 14.
2016 “Book Culture and Community in British North America.” University of Maine / UNB International Graduate Student Conference, Orono, Oct. 28-29.
2016 “The religious uses of sympathetic reading in British North America.” Joint session (competitive CFP): Canadian Historical Association and The Bibliographical Society of Canada, Calgary, May 28-June 3.
2016 “Borealia: Blogging as a transnational conversation about early Canadian history.” Canadian Historical Association, Calgary, May 28-June 3.
2016 “‘Remarkable events of Providence’: Nova Scotia textual culture, religion, and political change in the era of the American Revolution.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Sackville, NB, May 5-7.
2016 “‘The Quieting of Possessions’: Legally binding the Acadian grand derangement.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Sackville, NB, May 5-7 (with Elizabeth Mancke and Stephanie Pettigrew.
2016 “Roundtable: The personal and the professional: a tribute to the life and legacy of Esther Clark Wright.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Sackville, NB, May 5-7.
2016 “All My Books Printed and Wrote”: Handley Chipman’s Religious Texts and Networks in Revolutionary-Era Nova Scotia.” American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 7-10.
2015 “’O may his evangelical sentiments … have a wide circulation’: Reading ideas, practices, and networks in Edward Manning’s colonial Nova Scotia.” Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, June 1-3.
2015 “Reading Revival in Colonial Nova Scotia.” International Conference on Baptist Studies, Manchester, England, July 15-18.
2014 “‘The Domesticks’: Indentured Servants and Marginal Labourers in Colonial Nova Scotia.” University of Maine/University of New Brunswick Graduate History Conference, Orono, Maine, October 4.
2014 “Evangelical Readers and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” American Society of Church History, Washington, January 2-5.
2011 “‘Very Affecting and Evangelical’: Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology.” Canadian Society of Church History, Fredericton, May 28.
Panels Chaired
2014 “Religiosity and Community.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Fredericton, May 3.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS
Religion in North America and the Atlantic World, to 1900
Early Modern Intellectual and Religious History, 1500-1800
Colonial and Revolutionary America
Print Culture and Book History, to 1900
TEACHING
Assistant Professor (TT), Crandall University
Winter 2019 HI 1123 World History II (+ Tutorials)
HI 2123 Canada Since 1867
Fall 2018 HI 1113 World History 1 (Tutorials only)
HI 3043 Christianity and Culture in North America
HI 4033 Loyalists in the Atlantic World
Winter 2018 HI 1123 World History 2 (+ Tutorials)
HI 3023 Nature of History 2
Fall 2017 HI 1113 World History 1 (Tutorials only)
HI 2113 Pre-Confederation Canada
HI 3013 The Nature of History 1
HI 3853 The American Revolution
Lecturer, Crandall University
Winter 2016 HI 4103 The Evangelical Tradition in North America
Winter 2015 HI 3853 The American Revolution
Winter 2014 HI 3813 Colonial America in the Atlantic World
Lecturer, University of New Brunswick
Fall 2014 HIST 3402 The American Revolution
TA & Tutorial Instructor, University of New Brunswick
Winter 2014 HIST 2104 Modern Europe 2 (Lisa Todd)
Fall 2013 HIST 2103 Modern Europe 1 (Lisa Todd)
Winter 2013 HIST 2404 Introduction to U.S. History 2 (Jeff Brown)
Fall 2012 HIST 2403 Introduction to U.S. History 1 (Jeff Brown)
TA, Acadia Divinity College
Fall 2012 Introduction to Church History (Robert Wilson)
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED
2018-2019 Reimer, Danielle. “War of Emotions: Canadian Responses to the War of 1812.”
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS COMMITTEE
2017-2018 Roberts, Miranda. “The Father Bilodeau Project: The James Bay Cree & Christian Missions.”
INVITED GUEST LECTURE
2019 “Loyalists and the History of Emotions.” University of New Brunswick, HIST 3402, American Revolution (Dr. Bonnie Huskins). 75 minutes.
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
2014 “Amsterdamnified! Religious Dissenters, Anti-Providential Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700.” Annotated bibliography in preparation for a successful SSHRC Insight application by Gary Waite (UNB) and Michael Driedger (Brock University)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (BOARDS AND COMMITTEES)
2018- History Department Coordinator
2018-2019 Member, Academic Standards and Appeals Committee
Member, Senate
Member, Hiring Committee for Manager, Housing and Campus Life
2017-2018 Member, Academic Standards and Appeals Committee
Member, Student Transformation Working Group
2000-2001 Faculty Search Committee, Regent College
1999-2000 Board of Governors and Senate, Regent College, Student representative
1994-1995 Board of Governors and Senate, Crandall University, Student representative
SERVICE TO THE HISTORICAL DISCIPLINE
2018- Advisory Committee, New Brunswick Bibliography Series (University of New Brunswick; Gaspereau Press)
2018- Collaborator/Partnership Organization (Knowledge Mobilization) for “Military Service, Citizenship, and Political Culture: Militia Studies in Atlantic Canada, 1700-2000,” SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, l’Institut d’études acadiennes of the Université de Moncton, the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, and the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick. (Submitted)
2015- Borealia: A Group Blog on Early Canadian History (http://earlycanadianhistory.ca), Founding co-editor and regular contributor
2015- Collaborator/Partnership Organization (Knowledge mobilization), “Unrest, Violence, and the Search for Social Order in British North America and Canada, 1749-1876,” SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, UNB
2016-2017 Executive Committee (Member at Large), Canadian Society of Church History
2014-2017 Member, Canadian Historical Association Graduate Student Committee, UNB representative