JOHN A. SCHMALZBAUER
Department of Religious Studies
Missouri State University
901 S. National Avenue
Springfield, Missouri 65804
EDUCATION
PhD Sociology, Princeton University. 1997
MA Sociology, Princeton University. 1992.
BA Political Science, Wheaton College. 1990
POSITIONS
2004- Associate Professor and Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies, Department of Religious Studies,
Missouri State University
1998-2004 Assistant Professor and Edward Bennett Williams Fellow in Catholic Studies, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross. Granted tenure February 2004.
1996-98 Post-Doctoral Research Associate: “The Teaching and Practice of Religion in American Colleges and
Universities,” Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Funded by Lilly Endowment);
Instructor: “Introduction to Religion” and “Religion and the American Media,” Indiana University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis
GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND HONORS
2007 Subcontract on University of Northern Iowa Lilly Endowment Grant ($6,781).
2007 Sponsored Projects Special Recognition Award, Missouri State University.
2007 Ozarks Studies Mini-Grant, Religion in the Ozarks lecture series, Missouri State University (with Kathy Pulley).
2004-2007 Subcontract on University of Northern Iowa Lilly Endowment Grant ($116,007). Co-investigator with Betty
DeBerg, National Study of Campus Ministries. Total amount of University of Northern Iowa Grant: $687,189
2004-2005 Member, Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture,
Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
2000-2002 Subcontract on Boston College Lilly Endowment Evaluation Grant (with Kathleen Mahoney), Phase II ($15,299)
1999-2000 Subcontract on Boston College Lilly Endowment Evaluation Grant ($57,529). Co-Evaluator with Kathleen
Mahoney and James Youniss of $15.6 million Lilly Religion and Higher Education Initiative. Total amount of Boston
College Lilly Evaluation Grant: $332,572
1996-1998 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, “The Teaching and Practice
of Religion in American Colleges and Universities.” Funded by a major grant from Lilly Endowment
1996 Honorable Mention, Thompson Paper Award; American Sociological Association section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work
1994-1996 Collaborator on “Princeton-Paris Project on Evaluative Models,” directed by Michele Lamont (Princeton
University) and Laurent Thevenot (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). Funded by the National
Science Foundation and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
1994-1995 Dissertation Fellow, Louisville Institute (Lilly Endowment)
1991-1994 Graduate Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University
1990-1994 University Fellow, Sociology, Princeton University
1989-1990 First Prize, North Central Sociological Association, Student Paper Competition
1989-1990 First Prize, Midwest Sociological Society, Student Paper Competition
1989-1990 First Prize, Illinois Sociological Association, Student Paper Competition
BOOKS
2003 People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education (Cornell University Press).
Single author for this study.
2001 Conrad Cherry, Betty DeBerg, and Amanda Porterfield, with the assistance of William Durbin and John Schmalzbauer.
Religion on Campus. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Post-doctoral research associate for
this study, not a co-author.
JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS (REFEREED PUBLICATIONS)
2008 “American Scholars Return to Studying Religion,” (with Kathleen Mahoney), Contexts (Winter 2008), 16-21.
2006 “Commentary: Catholic Sacramentalism as Media Event: A View from the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of
Media,” in Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith, edited by Bruce Morrill, S.J.,
Susan Rodgers, and Joanna E. Ziegler. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 223-226.
2005 “Searching for Protestantism in the Encyclopedia of Protestantism,” Religion 35(4): 247-265.
2005 “Journalism and the Religious Imagination,” in Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas about Religion
and Culture, edited by Claire H. Badaracco. Waco: Baylor University Press, 21-36.
2002 “Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism,” in Practicing
Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion and Culture, edited by Stewart Hoover
and Lynn Schofield Clark. New York: Columbia University Press, 165-187.
2000 “Involvement and Detachment Among French and American Journalists: To Be or Not to Be a ‘Real Professional’”
(with Cyril Lemieux), in Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France
and the United States, edited by Michele Lamont and Laurent Thevenot. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 148-169. Published jointly by the Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris).
Chinese translation forthcoming: Zhong Hua Book Company.
1999 “Between Professional and Religious Worlds: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism.” Sociology of
Religion 60(4): 363-386.
on Campus Lifestyle Codes” (with Gray Wheeler), Sociology of Religion 57(3): 241-257.
1996 “Cultural and Moral Boundaries in the United States: Structural Position, Geographic Location, and Lifestyle
Explanations” (with Michele Lamont, Daniel Weber, and Maureen Waller). Poetics 24: 31-56.
1993 “Evangelicals in the New Class: Class Versus Subcultural Predictors of Ideology.” Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 32(4): 330-42.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2007 “Big Shots, Born Again: A Look at the Evangelical Power Elite,” Wall Street Journal, 18 October, D7.
2007 “Campus Ministry: A Statistical Portrait,” Web Forum on “The Religious Engagements of American Undergraduates,”
Social Science Research Council.
2007 Response to W. Clark Gilpin’s “Secularism: Religious, Irreligious, and Areligious,” Religion and Culture Web Forum,
Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School (March).
2007 “Searching for Protestantism in the Post-Protestant University,” Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study
of Religion 36(1): 23-28.
2006 “Harvard Loses Its Edge,” Wall Street Journal, 15 December, W17.
2006 “Against the Manichaeans: Philip Jenkins' revisionist take on post-1960s America” (Review Essay), Books and
Culture.March/April, 9.
2005 “Reading Herberg from Wheaton: Protestant-Catholic-Jew and American Evangelicalism,” U.S. Catholic
Historian 23(1): 25-39.
2004 “Without Jack Chick or Andrew Greeley: The New American Religious Revolution has Begun” (Review Essay
on William Shea’s The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America), Evangelical Studies
Bulletin 21(1): 5-8.
2003 “Hatfield, Mark Odum,” Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, ed. Timothy Larsen (Leicester, England:
Inter-Varsity Press, 2003).
2003 “Church as Civics 101,” (Review Essay), Books and Culture, May/June, 40-42.
2003 “Keeping Faith: A Religious Profile of Holy Cross Students,” (with Royce Singleton). Holy Cross Magazine,
Winter, 22-27.
2002 “Telling Catholic and Evangelical Stories in American Journalism: The Impact of the Religious Imagination,”
U.S. Catholic Historian 20(2): 25-44.
2002 “Rediscovering My Catholic Family,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Fall, 40-43.
2001 “Religion: A Comeback on Campus,” (with Kathleen Mahoney and James Youniss). Liberal Education,
Fall, 36-41.
1997 “The Religion Beat in American Journalism,” Religious Studies News 12(2): 18.
REPORTS
and Higher Education (with Kathleen Mahoney and James Youniss).
2000 Revitalizing Religion in the Academy: An Evaluation of Lilly Endowment’s Initiative on Religion and
Higher Education (with Kathleen Mahoney and James Youniss). Unpublished 172 page report to Lilly Endowment.
BOOK REVIEWS
2007 “Evangelicals and the Continental Divide: The Conservative Protestant Subculture in Canada and the United States,”
Journal of Religion 87(1): 106-08.
2006 “Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45(3): 472-73.
2006 “Protestantism and the American Founding,” Religious Studies Review 32(2): 135.
2005 “Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993,” Journal of American
History 92(1): 309.
2004 “Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post Welfare Era,” Contemporary Sociology 33(4): 459-460.
2003 “The Return of the Primitive: A New Sociological Theory of Religion,” Theological Studies 64(4): 897.
2003 “The Church on the World’s Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University,” Theological Studies
64(1): 189-190.
1999 “American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving,” Sociology of Religion 60(3): 336-337.
1999 “Cultural Wars in American Politics.” Social Forces 77(3): 1216-1218.
1997 “War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents.” Contemporary Sociology 26(1): 97-98.
1994 “Modern Christian Revivals.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33(4): 392.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
2008 “Reinventing Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University,” Appalachian Studies Association, Annual Meeting (March).
2008 Panelist, “A Contexts Town Hall Meeting,” Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meeting (March).
2008 Organizer and Presider, Panel on “Christianity, Politics, and the Press in the Recent United States,” American Society of
Church History, Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January).
2007 Panelist, Evening Public Program, Conference on “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind,” Institute on Culture, Religion,
and World Affairs, Boston University (December).
2007 Presenter, Evangelical Intellectuals in Sociology Panel, Conference on “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind.” Institute
on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University (December).
2007 Presenter, Author Meets Critics Session on Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power. Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida (November).
2007 Convener, Session on “Religion and Higher Education.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida (November).
2007 Author Meets Critics Session on Elaine Howard Ecklund’s Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life.
Association for the Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting, New York, NY (August).
2007 “The Campus Religious Marketplace in Contemporary America.” Association for the Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting,
New York, NY (August).
2007 “The Return of Religion to American Higher Education.” Christian Scholars Conference, Rochester College, Rochester Hills,
Michigan (June).
2007 “Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy” (with Kathleen Mahoney). Working Paper circulated prior
to “Are We Living in a Post-Secular World? A Working Meeting on Social Science and the 'Return of Religion.'”
Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, New York, New York (June).
2007 Presider and Organizer, Session on “Religion and Popular Culture in the Ozarks.” Midwest American Academy of Religion,
Annual Meeting, Forest Park, Illinois (March).
2007 “The Post-Secular Academy: The Return of Religion Across the Disciplines.” Public lecture presented to the Social
Science and Religion Network, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (March).
2007 “The Return of Religion in American Higher Education.” Public lecture, Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture,
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (March).
2007 “Chaplains and Their Professional Lives: Survey Results,” Presentation to the Final Conference of the Programs for
the Theological Exploration of Vocation (with Betty DeBerg and Sarah Ehlinger), Indianapolis, Indiana (February).
2006 “The Religious Imagination in American Journalism and Popular Culture.” Plenary Speaker, Journalism Through the Eyes
of Faith Conference, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota (September).
2005 “Explaining the Resurgence of Religion on Campus: A Social Movements Approach.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York (November).
2005 Convener, Session on “Religion and Education.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York (November).
2005 “Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular University.” Association for the Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (August).
2005 Response to Herman De Dijn, “Cultural Identity, Religion, Moral Pluralism, and the Law.” Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The Empty Throne – The Empty Church? Fourth Catholic Intellectual Exchange
Program (June).
2003 “Religious Vitality in Post-Protestant Colleges and Universities.” American Society of Church History,
Annual Meeting, Louisville, (May).
2002 Respondent, “Author Meets Critics” session for People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism
and Higher Education, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (November).
2002 Discussant, “Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith” Conference, Holy Cross College
(October).
2002 Panelist, Collegium Panel, Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education. Boston College, (July).
2001 Convener/Presider/Organizer, Regular Session on Religion, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Anaheim, California (August).
2001 “From Ghetto to Mainstream: Catholics and Evangelicals in the ‘Knowledge Professions.’” Presented at the Boisi
Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College (May).
2001 “Revitalizing Religion in the Academy: A Report from a Study on Religion and Higher Education” (with Kathleen
Mahoney and James Youniss). Presented at the Life Cycle Institute Brown Bag, Catholic University of America (January).
2001 “Telling Catholic and Evangelical Stories in American Journalism: The Impact of the Religious Imagination.” Paper
presented at the American Catholic Historical Association/American Society of Church History meetings,
Boston, MA (January).
2000 “Catholics and Evangelicals in the Knowledge Professions: From the Margins to Mainstream.” Paper presented at the
Association for the Sociology of Religion meetings, Washington, D.C. (August).
2000 “The Campus as Sacred Space: Interpreting the Material Culture of American Higher Education.” Presented at the
Religion on Campus Conference, Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis (April).
2000 “God and the Newsroom: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism.”Invited lecture, Baylor University
Department of Journalism (March).
2000 “Catholics and Evangelicals in the Academy.” Invited lecture, Baylor University Department of Sociology/Anthropology
(March).
1999 “Making Room for Religion in a Culture of Disbelief: Catholic and Evangelical Academics as Public Intellectuals.”
Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meetings, Boston, MA (November).
1999 “Bach, Rock, and the Rock of Ages.” Presented at the Association for the Sociology of Religion meetings,
Chicago (August).
1998 Presider for “Religion, Health, and Aging” session. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meetings, Montreal,
Quebec (November).
1997 “Telling Catholic and Evangelical Stories in American Journalism: The Intersection of Religious and Professional
Narratives.” Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Toronto, Ontario (August).
1997 “Sociology as a Religious Vocation: Catholics and Evangelicals in the Social Sciences.” Presented at the Association
for the Sociology of Religion meetings, Toronto, Ontario (August).
1997 Discussant for “Negotiating Faith Within Pluralistic Modernity” session. Association for the Sociology of Religion
meetings, Toronto, Ontario (August).
1996 “Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: How Evangelical and Catholic Journalists Manage the Boundary Between
Professional and Religious Worlds.” Presented at Conference on Religion, Media, and Culture, University of
Colorado at Boulder (January).
1994 “Between Fundamentalism and Secularization: The Reshaping of Evangelical Lifestyle Codes” (with Gray Wheeler).
Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Los Angeles, CA (August).
1994 “Problems of Involvement and Detachment Among French and American Journalists” (with Cyril Lemieux). Presented
at the International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL (April).
1993 “Secularization Theory Versus the New Sociology of Religion Paradigm: The Case of Evangelical College Campus
Rules” (with Gray Wheeler). Presented in absentia at the American Sociological Association meetings, Miami, FL
(August).
1991 “Evangelicals in the New Class.” Paper presented at Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meetings, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (November).
1990 “The Sociological Function of the Eucharist: Lutheranism and the Anabaptist Movement.” Paper presented at Association
for the Sociology of Religion meetings, Washington, D.C. (August).
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES
2007 Organizer and Panelist, “Faith and Ethnicity in Freistatt: Past and Present,” Trinity Lutheran School,
Freistatt, Missouri (October).
2007 Four sessions on religion in the Ozarks. First and Calvary Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Missouri (July).
2007 Four sessions on the Protestant tradition. First and Calvary Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Missouri (February).
2006 “The Return of Religion in American Higher Education.” Provost’s Research Forum, Missouri State University,
Springfield, Missouri (April).
2005 “Christianity and American Politics: Two Competing Approaches.” Invited lecture, First Unitarian Universalist Church,
Springfield, Missouri (December).
2005 “Promised Lands.” Presentation to visiting students from Liberty Charter School of Minnesota in Nixa, Missouri (October).
2005 “Being German, Being Religious: How the Immigrants Kept the Faith and Lost Their Ethnicity.” Presentation to
German-Austrian-Swiss Heritage and Historical Society of the Ozarks meeting, Springfield, Missouri (October).
2005 Organizer, Panel Discussion, “German Ethnicity and Religion,” German-Austrian-Swiss Heritage and Historical Society
of the Ozarks meeting, Springfield, Missouri (October).
2005 “Recurring Models in Campus Ministry.” Talk delivered at Missouri State University Campus Minister’s Appreciation
Luncheon, Springfield, Missouri (September).
2005 “Searching for Protestantism in the Post-Protestant University.” Inaugural lecture of the Blanche Gorman
Strong Chair in Protestant Studies, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri (September).
2005 “The Post-Secular University: The Comeback of Religion on Campus.” Invited lecture to the Springfield Ministerial
Alliance, Springfield, Missouri (May).
2005 “Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of American Catholicism.” Invited lecture, University Heights Baptist
Church, Springfield, Missouri (May).
2005 “Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy.” Invited lecture, MacLaurin Institute, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis (April).
2005 “Everything Old is New Again: Lessons from the History of Campus Ministry.” Invited lecture, University Christian
Ministry Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April).
2005 Three sessions on religion and American Culture, First and Calvary Presbyterian Church, Springfield,
Missouri (January).
COURSES TAUGHT
Ozarks Religion (Missouri State University)
Basic Issues in Religion, Self, and Society (Missouri State University)
Congregations on the Ground: Exploring Local Religious Worlds (Missouri State University)
Religion in America (Missouri State University)
Bible Belt Religion: Conservative Protestants in America (Missouri State University)
Religion, Media, and Popular Culture (Missouri State University)
The Sociological Perspective (Holy Cross)
Sociology of Religion (Holy Cross)
Catholicism, Media and Popular Culture (Holy Cross)
Sociology of Media and Popular Culture (Holy Cross)
Sociology of American Catholicism (Holy Cross)
From Ellis Island to Long Island: Losing Our Religion? (Holy Cross First Year Program)
From the “Greatest Generation” to the MTV Generation (Holy Cross First Year Program)
Religion and the American Media (at Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis)
Introduction to Religion (at Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis)
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE/DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Member, Judaism Position Search Committee, Religious Studies Department, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Member, Ozarks Studies Endowed Professorship Search Committee, Spring 2008
Member, Public Affairs Professorship Selection Committee, Spring 2008
Member, Ozarks Studies Coordinating Committee, Fall 2006-Present
Member, College of Humanities and Public Affairs Awards Committee, Fall 2007-Present
Member, Provost’s Incentive Program Committee, Spring 2006-Summer 2006
Member, Professional Standards Committee, Religious Studies Department, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Presentation, College of Humanities and Public Affairs Dean’s Advisory Council, November 2005
Member, Mission Goals, and Endowed Chairs Committee, Religious Studies Department, Fall 2007-Present
Member, Graduate Committee, Religious Studies Department, Spring 2005-Present
Member, Assessment Committee, Religious Studies Department, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press
Manuscript Reviewer, Baylor University Press
Manuscript Reviewer, Blackwell Publishing
Organizer, Regular Session on Religion, 2001 American Sociological Association Meetings
Member, Research Awards Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2000-01
Manuscript Reviewer, Review of Religious Research
Manuscript Reviewer, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
Manuscript Reviewer, Social Forces
Manuscript Reviewer, Contexts.
Manuscript Reviewer, Sociology of Religion
Manuscript Reviewer, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Council Member, German-Austrian-Swiss Heritage and Historical Society of the Ozarks
Board of Directors, Greene County Historical Society.