Associate Editor

LUKE HARLOW

Luke Harlow is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

He is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, with interests in the broad Civil War era, religion and politics, as well as slavery and emancipation. His first book, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), showed the significance of debates over Christian “orthodoxy” in shaping pro- and antislavery politics. It tracked the fate of gradual emancipation and colonization movements, southern abolitionism, and proslavery religion before, during, and after the Civil War.

Other publications include essays on the “long life” of proslavery religion after the end of slavery in The World the Civil War Made (University of North Carolina Press, 2015); the significance of the Civil War and emancipation to the making of conservative American evangelicalism in Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 2017); social reform in nineteenth-century America in the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (Oxford University Press, 2017); and the place of religion in histories of slavery in the Journal of Southern Religion (2016). With Mark A. Noll, he co-edited Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2007).

He also introduced and edited a forum on The Future of Reconstruction Studies in the Journal of the Civil War Era (in 2017).