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Grove City College
Department of Religion and
Philosophy
100 Campus Drive, Box 3083
Grove City, PA 16127
Email: pckemeny@gcc.edu
Phone: 724/458-2195
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Princeton Seminary,
Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude, 1995
Duke University,
Master of Theology, 1988
Westminster Seminary,
Master of Divinity, First Honors, 1987; Master of Arts
of Religion, First Honors, 1986
Wake Forest University,
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Classical Studies, 1983
United States Military
Academy, 1979
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities,
Grove City College, 2003-present
Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities,
Grove City College, 2000-2003
Research Fellow,
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North
Carolina, 1999-2000
Assistant Professor,
Calvin College, Religion Department, 1996-99
Affiliate Fellow,
Princeton University, Center for the Study of American Religion,
1995-1996
Adjunct Professor,
College of New Jersey, 1994-1995
Teaching Fellow,
Princeton Seminary, 1990-1991, Fall 1995, Teaching Assistant,
Spring 1990, Spring 1992
Greek Tutor,
Wake Forest University, Classical Studies Department, 1982-1983
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AWARDS, HONORS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Omicron Delta Kappa,
faculty member elected by students, 2004
Theta Alpha Kappa,
faculty member, 2004
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology,
Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Church-Related College
Faculty, 2002-2003
Francis Mackemie Award,
Outstanding Book, Presbyterian Historical Society, 1999
Woodrow Wilson Award,
1992
Princeton Doctoral Fellowship,
1989-1993
Eta Sigma Phi
(Classics) Honor Society, 1983
Dean’s List,
Wake Forest University, 1980-1983
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RESEARCH GRANTS
Research Grant,
American Academy of Religion, 2004-2005
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003-2004
Research Grant,
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology,
2003
Research Grant,
Public Policy Education Fund, 2001
Littleton-Griswold
Research Grant,
American Historical Association, 2000
Pew Charitable Trust
Research Grant,
“Power, Ridicule, and the Destruction of Religious Moral Reform
Politics in the 1920s,” a Participant in Religion and the Social
Construction of American Public Life: Cultural Elites and
Institutional Processes in Historical Perspective, Christian
Smith, Principal Investigator, University of North Carolina,
1999-2001
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TEACHING GRANTS
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.,
Bible-Teaching Grant, 2003-2004. [coordinator of “Bible and American
Society” lecture series, 2004]
Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
Grant, 2004. [coordinator of “Bible and American Society” lecture
series, 2004]
Atlas Economic Foundation and John Templeton Foundation, Freedom
Project Course Award, 2002. [Co-taught with Profs. M. Coulter, G.
Smith, J. Herbener, T. Miller, honors section of Humanities 302:
Modern Civilization in International Perspective]
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BOOKS
The First Moral Majority: The New
England Watch and Ward Society and Moral Reform
Politics in Late Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth-Century America,
in-process.
Church, State, and Social Justice: Five
Views, editor, in-process.
Princeton in the Nations Service:
Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928.
Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
American Church History: A Reader,
Co-Edited with Henry Warner Bowden. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Power, Ridicule, and the
Destruction of Religious Moral Reform Politics in the 1920s,” The
Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the
Secularization of American Public Life, ed. Christian Smith,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
“‘Banned in Boston’:
Commercial Culture and the Decline of Protestant Moral Reform
Political Action in Boston in the 1920s,” Faith in the Market:
Religion and Urban Commercial Culture in North America, 1880-1990,
ed. Diane Winston and John Gigge, New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2002.
“Waymarks in the
Wilderness and Scriptural Guide.” In Popular Religious Magazines
of the United States, ed. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1995.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
“University Cultural Wars: Rival Protestant Pieties in Early
Twentieth Century Princeton.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History
53 (2002): 735-764.
“Princeton University Chapels: An Architectural and Religious
History.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 60 (1999):
317-52. Co-authored with Sara Bush.
“‘Clubable’ Christianity and Controversy: Fundamentalists and
Modernists at Princeton University in 1915.” Princeton
University Library Chronicle 58 (1997): 273-310.
“Princeton University, Secularization Theories, and Revisionist
History: A Review Essay.” Journal of Presbyterian History 75
(1997): 71-83.
“César Pronier’s Visit: A Snapshot Picture of Life in Princeton in
1873.” Princeton History 13 (1995): 20-30. Co-authored with
Allan C. Lane.
“Princeton and the Premillennialists: Roots of the Mariage de
Convenance.” Journal of Presbyterian History 71 (1993):
17-30.
“Peter Abelard: An Examination of His Doctrine of Original Sin.”
Journal of Religious History 16 (1991): 374-86.
“President Francis Landey Patton, Princeton University, and Faculty
Ferment.” Journal of Presbyterian History 69 (1991): 111-21.
Woodrow Wilson Award Winner.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Ed. Robert Benedetto, Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox Press, forthcoming. S.v. “Archibald Alexander
Hodge,” “Charles Hodge,” and “John Gresham Machen.”
Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, ed. Joe Buenker. Amonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, forthcoming. S.v. Fundamentalism.
Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers,
ed. John R. Snook. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2005. S.v. “Lewis
French Stearns” and “William Jewett Tucker.”
Encyclopedia of New Jersey, New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2004. S.v. Charles Hodge.
Encyclopedia of Protestantism,
Ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, New York: Routledge, 2003. S.v. Inter
Varsity Christian Fellowship.
Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals,
Ed. Timothy Larsen, David Bebbington, and Mark Noll. Leicester:
Inter Varsity Press, 2003. S.v. J. Gresham Machen.
Encyclopedia of New York State,
Ed. Peter Eisenstadt, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
forthcoming, S.v. Brick Presbyterian Church, James Davenport,
Francis Makamie.
Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,
4th ed. Ed. H. D. Betz et al. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001. S.v.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Octavious Brooks Frothingham.
Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism,
Ed. Brenda E. Brasher. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire, 2001. S.v.
Westminster Confession.
IVP Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America,
ed. Mark A. Noll and D.G. Hart. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999. S.v.
George Alexander, James Waddel Alexander, Charles W. Forman, AA. J.
Gossip, James Hasting Nichols, Thomas E. Peck, Charles Woodruff
Shields, Horace Grant Underwood.
American National
Biography, gen. ed. John A. Garraty. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998. S.v. Amzi, Clarence Dixon, Lewis French
Stearns, William Jewett Tucker, John Leighton Wilson.
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PAPER PRESENTATIONS
“Anthony Comstock,
Free-Lovers, and the Censoring of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass:
Defining the Terms of Protestant Toleration in Late
Nineteenth-Century New England,” American Academy of Religion,
Philadelphia, November 2005.
“The First Moral Majority: The New England Watch and Ward Society,
Moral Reform Politics, and the Battle over Commercial Culture in
Early Twentieth-Century Boston,” North American Religions Section,
American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 2003.
“‘Banned in Boston’: Liberal Protestants, Commercial Culture, and
the Politics of Moral Reform in the 1920s.” American Society of
Church History, San Francisco, January 2002.
“Power, Ridicule, and the Destruction of Religious Moral Reform
Politics in the 1920s,” at The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests,
and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June, 2001.
“The Secular Revolution: The Demise of the New England Watch and
Ward Society in the late-1920s.” American Society of Church History,
Boston, January 2001.
“The University in the Nation’s Service: Religious Education at
Princeton University, 1868-1928.” Rhodes College Conference on
Higher Education, May 1997.
“A Fundamentalist’s Revival or a Modernist’s Religious Emphasis
Week: Conflicting Models for Religious Revivals at Princeton
University in the Early Twentieth Century.” American Society of
Church History, San Francisco, CA, January 1994.
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AREAS OF TEACHING
American Religious
History; History of Christianity; Contemporary American Religion; Religion and
American Politics; World Religions; Western Civilization
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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Academy of Religion
American Historical
Association
American Society of
Church History
Conference on Faith and
History
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SERVICE TO COLLEGE (only recent activities)
*Chair,
Student Honor Council Committee, 2005-present
*Studies
in Science, Faith, & Technology Committee, 2004-present
*Campus
Technology Committee, 2004-present
*Information
Technology Committee, 2002-present
*Advisor
to all Religion Majors in the Class of 2004, 2000-2004
*Advisor, Theta Alpha Kappa, Religion Honorary Society, 2004-present
*Organizer,
Faculty Scholarship Workshops, 2000-present
*Organizer,
Plagiarism Detection Program, Humanities Curriculum, 2001-present
*General
Education Curriculum Review Committee, 2003-2004
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PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
*Research Committee, American Society of Church History, 2003-present
*Chair, Session, American Society of Church History, Spring Meeting,
April 2004
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MANUSCRIPT READER/REFEREE
*Oxford University Press
*Roman & Littlefield
*Christian Scholar’s
Review
*Journal of
Christianity and Psychology
*Journal of
Presbyterian History
*Teaching Theology &
Religion
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PERSONAL
Birthdate:
December 13, 1960.
Family:
Married to Martha (Betsy) Bagwell Kemeny. Two children: Helen, born Jan. 18,
1994; William, born Jan. 30, 2000.
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