Matthew J. Grow
University of Notre Dame
219 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-3022 (office)
mgrow@nd.edu
EDUCATION:
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., American History, August 2006
Dissertation: “‘Liberty to the Downtrodden’: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer”
Adviser: George M. Marsden
Committee: Thomas P. Slaughter, John T. McGreevy, James Turner, Sarah Barringer Gordon
M.A., History, January 2005
Fields of concentration for qualifying exams: American colonial history; American nineteenth-century history; American religious history; colonial and modern Latin American history
Brigham Young University
B.A., History, April 2001
Honors: Summa cum laude
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT:
Edward Sorin Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2008
PUBLICATIONS:
“Liberty to the Downtrodden”: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer, under contract to Yale University Press.
“‘A Providencial Means of Agitating Mormonism’: Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco Press, 1854-1855,” in Laurie Maffly-Kipp and Reid Neilson, eds., Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, forthcoming 2008).
“Contesting the Latter-day Saint Image: The North American Review and the Mormons, 1881-1907,” Journal of Mormon History 32 (Summer 2006): 111-138.
“‘I Have Given Myself to the Devil’: Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Honor,” Utah Historical Quarterly 73 (Fall 2005): 345-364.
“‘Clean from the Blood of this Generation’: The Washing of Feet and the Latter-day Saints,” in Richard L. Bushman, ed., Archive of Restoration Culture Summer Fellows’ Papers, 2000-2002 (Provo, Utah: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, 2005), 131-138.
“The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations: Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 73 (March 2004): 139-167.
“The Shadow of the Civil War: A Historiography of Civil War Memory,” American Nineteenth-Century History 4 (Summer 2003): 77-103.
“‘A Providencial Means of Agitating Mormonism’: Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco Press, 1854-1855,” Journal of Mormon History 29 (Fall 2003): 158-185.
“‘I Consider the Proper Authority Rests Among the Mormons’: Oran Brownson to Orestes Brownson on Oran’s Conversion to Mormonism,” Mormon Historical Studies 4 (Fall 2003):191-198.
“A Belated Reply: The English Ancestry of John and William Pratt of Connecticut,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 149 (October 1995): 374-78.
NEXT PROJECT:
Parley P. Pratt: A Cultural and Intellectual Biography, co-author Terryl L. Givens, proposal under review at Oxford University Press.
REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
“Parley P. and Orson Pratt” and “Thomas L. Kane,” in W. Paul Reeve and Ardis Parshall, eds., Encyclopedia of Mormon History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
Review of Donald R. Moorman with Gene A. Sessions, Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992; reprint 2005), John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, forthcoming Fall 2007.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Notre Dame:
Instructor, Fall 2007
“Reforming America” (senior research seminar)
“Early America” (first half of the U. S. history survey)
Instructor, Spring 2007
“New American Nation” (1781-1848)
“Modern America, 1877-Present” (second half of the U. S. history survey)
Instructor, Fall 2006
“American Religious History”
Instructor, Summer 2005
“War, Memory, and American History” (interdisciplinary course on the collective and personal memories—cultural, social, and political—of America’s wars from the colonial era to the present)
Teaching Assistant
“U. S. History post-World War II,” Winter 2004 (Thomas Blantz)
“U. S. History to 1865,” Fall 2003 (Steven Brady)
“New American Nation,” Winter 2003 (David Waldstreicher)
"Irish-American Experience,” Fall 2002 (Jay Dolan)
Brigham Young University:
Teaching Assistant, 1998-2001
“Colonial Latin America,” 1998-1999 (Kendall Brown)
“History of Western Civilization,” 1998, 2000-2001 (Kendall Brown, Noel Reynolds)
AWARDS:
Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award, University of Notre Dame, for top graduating doctoral degree recipient in the humanities, 2007.
Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award, Mormon History Association, 2007.
Juanita Brooks Award for the Best Graduate Paper, Mormon History Association, 2003, 2006.
Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History, Western History Association, for best article of the year on religious history in the West, 2005.
Philip Gleason Prize for best published article by a graduate student, History Department,University of Notre Dame, 2005.
Dissertation Research Grant, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, 2005.
Dissertation Research Grant, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 2004.
Archive of Restoration Culture Summer Research Fellowship, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, directed by Richard L. Bushman, 2001.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
“Peace Parties and War Factions at Salt Lake City and Camp Scott: Thomas L. Kane’s Narratives and the Utah War Peace,” Western History Association, Oklahoma City, October 2007.
“Violence Against the Heartland: the Utah War and Mormon Oppositional Identity,” Mormon History Association, Salt Lake City, May 2007.
“Martyred Apostle or un-Saintly Seducer: Narratives on the Death of Parley P. Pratt,” conference on “Religion and Reaction: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Parley Parker Pratt,” Fort Smith, Arkansas, April 2007.
“Thomas L. Kane, the Suffering Saints, and the Mormon Counter-Narrative in Antebellum America,” American Society of Church History, Salt Lake City, April 2007.
Moderator and Panelist, “The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman,” conference at the University of Notre Dame, May 2006.
“Unorthodoxy, Radical Reform, and Religious Minorities in Antebellum America: A Case Study of Thomas L. Kane,” American Society of Church History, Philadelphia, January 2006.
“Abolitionism, Civil Disobedience, and Parental Authority: The Kane Family and the Fugitive Slave Act,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania conference on “Pennsylvanians Behaving Badly: Violence, Disorder, and Transgression,” Philadelphia, November 2005.
“Thomas L. Kane, Antebellum Reform, and Defense of the Mormons,” Mormon History Association, Killington, Vermont, May 2005.
“Mormonism, Martyrdom, and Marginality: Thomas L. Kane and the Tempering of Mormon Image, 1846-1852,” Midwest American Academy of Religion, Chicago, April 2005.
“Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Honor,” Harold B. Lee Library Omnibus Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, September 2004.
“The ‘Whore of Babylon’ and the ‘Abomination of Abominations’: Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Perceptions of Each Other,” Mormon History Conference, Kirtland, Ohio, May 2003.
“‘Clean from the Blood of this Generation’: The Latter-day Saints and the Washing of Feet,” conference on “Joseph Smith and His Times,” sponsored by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, Brigham Young University, August 2001.
“Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco Press, 1854-1855,” Mormon History Conference, Cedar City, Utah, May 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Presenter, Bennion Teachers’ Workshop, “The Utah War: Teaching Controversial Subjects,” week-long workshop for public school teachers at the Mountain West Center, Utah State University, August 2007.
Reviewer of book manuscript, American Philosophical Society.
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Brigham Young University:
Documentary Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Project, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, Summer 2003.
Research Assistant, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, 2000-2001.
Research Assistant, Department of History, 1999-2000 (research in nineteenth-century Latin America and in American religious history).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Historical Association
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Western History Association
American Academy of Religion
Mormon History Association