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Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
U.S. Religious History
Professional Information
Professor Ebel's research program involves religion and war, religion and violence, and lay theologies of economic hardship all within the American context. His most recent book, From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California (NYU, 2023) examines the federal migratory farm labor camp system established in California during the Great Depression, as a site of missionary interaction between New Deal reformers and Dust Bowl migrants. He is also the author of G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion (Yale, 2015), Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War (Princeton, 2010), and the co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California, 2012). He is currently at work on a religious history of American warfare in five weapons.
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2004
B.A. Harvard University, 1993
Honors & Awards
President, American Society of Church History, 2023
Guggenheim Fellow, 2017-2018
Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2012-2013
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2015-2020
Grants
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, 2014-2015
Teaching
REL 236: Religion, Violence, and America
REL 510: Graduate Intro to the Study of Religion
REL 134: Religion, Race, and Resistance
REL 436: Religion in the U.S., 1900-1941
REL 235: History of Religion in America
REL / PHIL 110: World Religions
REL 437: Religion and American Cinema
Office Address
Department of Religion
3092B Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Research output
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G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
Ebel, J. H., Nov 24 2015, Yale University Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America
Carlson, J. D. (ed.) & Ebel, J. H. (ed.), Jun 2012, University of California Press. 250 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War
Ebel, J. H., Apr 11 2010, Princeton University Press. 253 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California
Ebel, J. H., Oct 2023, New York: New York University Press. 379 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
Holscher, K., Ebel, J., Riess, J., Edmonds, J. L. T., Heo, A. & Kelman, A. Y., Dec 1 2019, In: Religion and American Culture. 29, 1, p. 1-35 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › peer-review
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Honors & Recognition
Activities
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Faculty Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Jonathan H Ebel (Recipient)
2007 → 2008Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
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Sparta and the New Jerusalem: Religion, Violence and American Redemption
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)
Feb 2007Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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Divinity School Fellowship
Jonathan H Ebel (Recipient)
1999 → 2001Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
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The Role of Religion in Military Memorial Practices
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)
Mar 2 2011Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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The Things They Buried: The Religious Dynamics of Remembering and Forgetting America’s War Dead
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)
Feb 23 2011Activity: Talk types › Invited talk