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Profile profile for ManseauP

Peter Manseau

Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History
Division of Cultural and Community Life

Ph.D., Georgetown University
M.A., Georgetown University
B.A., University of Massachusetts

Research Specialties: 
  • American religious diversity
  • Relics and material culture of religious traditions
  • American Yiddish literature
  • Roman Catholicism in the United States
  • Science and religion
  • Religion and media
Projects: 
  • Religion in Early America (exhibition opening July 2017)
  • Objects of Devotion (exhibition publication, Smithsonian Books, April 2017)
Awards, Honors, and Special Recognition: 
  • National Jewish Book Award
  • American Library Association Sophie Brody Medal
  • National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
  • Patrick Henry History Writing Fellowship
Professional Affiliations: 

American Academy of Religion

Publications

One Nation Under Gods: A New American History. Little, Brown, 2015.
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead. Henry Holt, 2009.
Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son. Free Press, 2005.