Hymnody in American Protestantism Project
Grant Recipients and their Topics
- Armstrong, Christopher (Duke University): campmeeting holiness hymnody, 1867-1890
- Bauer, Susan Wise (College of William and Mary): "narrative" and "logical" hymns and American Christian views of "liberal" and "conservative"
- Bence, Philip (Houghton College): hymnic reflections of the national rift in antebellum America
- Bergler, Thomas (Notre Dame): youth culture and hymnody (Youth for Christ influences)
- Brereton, Virginia (Tufts University): hymns in the black gospel tradition
- Boots, Cheryl (Boston University): missionary hymns in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and American expansionism in the early 20th century
- Curtis, Heather (Harvard University): hymns and the religious experiences of children, 1780-1850
- DeJong, Mary (Altoona College, Penn State University): textual editing and the "making" of hymns in the 19th century
- Dickerson, Dennis (Williams College): 19th century AME church music
- Erickson, Scott (Harvard University): hymnody in the Swedish Covenant Church
- Fox, Donald H. (UCC Church, La Crosse, WI): original poems versus printed hymns: editorial choices in contemporary American hymnals
- Fuller, Daniel, Philip Goff, and Kate McGinn (Fuller Theological Seminary): revivalist hymns and listener responses to the Old Fashioned Revival Hour
- Gallagher, Susan VanZanten (Seattle Pacific University): domesticity in American hymns, 1820-1870
- Granquist, Mark (St. Olaf College): American evangelical hymnody and Swedish immigrant denominations
- Gunther, Candy (Harvard University): popular hymnody and the flowering of evangelical culture, 1830-1880
- Hart, D. G. (Westminster Theological Seminary): evangelical song and Presbyterian hymnals in 20th-century America
- Hindmarsh, Bruce (Briarcrest Biblical Seminary): "Amazing Grace": the history of a hymn and cultural icon
- Hinkley, Willard: Depression-era hymnals
- Ingham, Cynthia Jo: Virginia Baptist hymnody, 1780-1800, and constructions of religious liberty
- Kee, Kevin (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario): hymns and gospel songs in Canadian evangelism, 1884-1957
- King, Chuck (College Church, Wheaton, IL): a case study of hymnals and the life of an historic evangelical congregation
- Mathieu, Lea: hymns of the Civil War era
- Mouw, Richard (Fuller Theological Seminary): nautical imagery in American hymnody
- Murison, Barbara (University of Western Ontario): creating the hymnal of the Presbyterian Church in Canada
- Noll, Mark (Wheaton College, IL): "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name"
- Norton, Kay (Arizonia State University): "Mercer's Cluster"
- Piscitelli, Felicia (Texas A & M University): Protestant hymnody in Roman Catholic worship
- Ramirez, Daniel (Duke University): hymnody as ideology in American Latino Protestantism
- Rogal, Samuel (Illinois Valley Community College): textual changes in popular occasional hymns
- Rothenbusch, Esther (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary): Isaac Watts in Victorian America
- Schneider, Robert A. (Temple University): popular American hymns and Protestant foreign missions
- Smucker, David (Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society): how the Mennonite hymnological tradition made the transition from German to English, and how that transition correlated to changes in theology influenced by North American Protestantism
- Stackhouse, Rochelle: Watts' "O God Our Help in Ages Past" and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord" and hymns as reflectors of contemporary issues and molders of public discourse and action
- Tyson, John R. (Houghton College): "Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" and the development of American Methodism
- VanderWilt, Jeffrey (Loyola Marymount): singing about death in American Protestant hymnody
- VanDyke, Mary Louise (The Hymn Society, Oberlin College): shaping concepts, attitudes and worship practices through hymnal indices
- Young, Ellen: hymnody and Lutheran self-understanding in the early 20th century