1. “The University Absolutely Had Nothing in Place…”: Life After Grad School with Bradley Sommer
Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline - On the Future of a Humanities Ph.D. - Russell T. McCutcheon
Jacob Barrett [+]
Jacob Barrett is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the Religion and Culture track. His research interests are grounded in questions about religion and governance, law, and the state and explored through contemporary examples from American politics.
Erica Bennett [+]
Erica Bennet received her B.A. in Religious Studies at Millsaps College and her M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Alabama. She spent much of her college career developing skills in research, museum studies, and podcasting/digital creation; she now works full-time in event planning in the Career Center at the University of Alabama.
Bradley J. Sommer [+]
U.S. Center of Military History / Miami University
Bradley J. Sommer earned his Ph.D. in American History from Carnegie Mellon University and is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. He is also an online adjunct professor at Miami University in Ohio. Currently, he is working on a book about Toledo, OH, in the latter half of the 20th century, entitled Tomorrow Never Came: Toledo, Ohio and the Making of Postindustrial Midwest.
Description
The following transcript is from the first episode of a four-part series on the University of Alabama’s Study Religion podcast. The podcast was originally posted on September 6, 2022; it was hosted and produced by Erica Bennett while the transcript was produced by Erica and Jacob Barrett, now in his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The guest is Bradley Sommer.