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Professor Kosek’s new book, entitled Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy, will be published by Columbia University Press in January 2009. This work tells the stories of some religious radicals who responded to the catastrophic bloodshed of the twentieth century by inventing a new form of militant nonviolence. This group’s audacious “acts of conscience” – public performances of individual moral dissent such as sit-ins, boycotts, and conscientious objection to war – gained remarkable power by blending Christian ideals, Gandhian strategy, and novel uses of mass media. Professor Kosek was awarded a 2007-08 John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress to finish the research and writing for this book. He also received the 2005 Allan Nevins Prize, given annually by the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation in the field of American history. Professor
Kosek teaches graduate seminars in American religion and American history.
His undergraduate courses include “U.S. Religion and Politics,”
“America in the Twenties,” and “Changing America,”
a research seminar on U.S. reform movements.
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Kip
Kosek joined the department in 2005. His main interests are in American
religion and modern American history, with specialties in social thought,
reform movements, and cultural history.