Bio
Dr. Jacob Hiserman is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. He recently defended his dissertation, "Tradition in Peril: Liturgy, Moral Philosophy, and Nineteenth-Century Southern Christian Colleges." This project was directed by Drs. James Turner & John Giggie. Jacob's dissertation research has been funded, in part, by The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Institute for Humane Studies. He earned a BA in History from Christendom College in Front Royal, VA and an MA in History at Baylor University in Waco, TX. At Christendom, Jacob wrote his undergraduate thesis under Dr. Christopher Shannon. Dr. Andrea Turpin advised his masters thesis at Baylor.
Dr. Hiserman has taught U.S. and World History and the liberal arts at The University of Alabama. He also taught a class on John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University in the Baylor Honors College. Dr. Hiserman has written for Current, the U.S. Intellectual History Blog, and the W.R. Poage Legislative Library blog. He is revising a journal article manuscript on a late nineteenth-century liturgical controversy over ritualism at Sewanee, The University of the South and preparing a second article-length manuscript on moral philosophy in practice in southern higher education. |