Jordann Heckart
Ph.D. Student
Advisor
Dr. Andrea Turpin
Education
M.A. in Church History, Cum Laude and M.A. in Theology, Magna Cum Laude, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2018
Thesis: “Mother of Israel, Daughter of Christ: The Untold Story of The Backus Women”
Advisor: Dr. Gwenfair Adam
B.A in Religion and Human Services and a minor in Oxford Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Carson-Newman University, 2015
Academic Interests & Research Narrative
My research focuses on women and religion in America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Specifically, I am interested in the treatment and writings of Separate and Baptist communities during this period.
Selected Publications
Journal Publications
Heckart, Jordann. “Susanna Backus: Daughter of Christ.” Baptist History and Heritage LVI, no. 2 (2021): 6-19.
Allen, Jordann. “Kathleen Manley: Missionary Nurse.” Tennessee Baptist History 17, no. 1 (2015): 71-84.
Book Reviews
Heckart, Jordann. Review of The Emergence of Religious Toleration in Eighteenth-Century New England: Baptists, Congregationalists, and the Contribution of John Callender, 1706-1748, by Jeffrey A. Waldrop. Reading Religion (July 2020)
Allan, Jordann. Review of The Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys: Early English Baptist Texts, edited by William L. Pitts, Jr. and Rady Roldan-Figueroa. Reading Religion (September 2017)
Selected Activities
Awards
- 2023, Graduate Student Fellowship, Baylor University
- 2018 Division of Christian Thought Hamilton Award Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- 2016 Byington Scholarship Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
- 2015 - 2018 Billy Graham Scholarship
- 2015 Outstanding Graduate in the Department of Religion Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, TN
- 2014 Robert M. Shurden Outstanding Junior Religion Award
- 2014 Theology Student of the Year
- 2014 Student Ambassador of the Year
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