Jeff Bain-Conkin
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University Writing Program
Degrees
Ph.D. Candidate, United States History, University of Notre Dame; MDiv, Theology, Baylor University.
Profile
Jeff Bain-Conkin, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, has lived in South Bend since 2005. He has otherwise resided in the southern United States. He studies nineteenth-century religion in the United States and is learning to play the banjo.
Recent Scholarly Activity
Review Essay of Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic by
John R. Dichtl and Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood
in the United States, 1789-1870 by Michael Pasquier, Books and Culture, forthcoming.
“Religious Practice in Transatlantic Perspective: A Case Study of Louisville, Kentucky, Catholicism.”
University of Louisville Graduate Humanities Conference 16 April 2010.
“Graveyard Shifts: Secularization and Death Practices in 19th-Century Louisville, Kentucky.” Secularization
and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History (Third Annual Baylor University Symposium
on Faith and Culture) 8-10 October 2009.
Contact Information
300 O'Shaughnessy Hall (Office Hours)
205 Coleman Morse (Mailbox)
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall (Alternate Mailbox)
jconkin@nd.edu
