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