Kimberly R. Kellison
Associate Professor of History & Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Co-director of Baylor's Baptist Studies International Roundtable
Areas of Specialtization
American South, Civil War and Reconstruction, Religion in the American South
Education
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
M.A., University of South Carolina
B.A., Erskine College
Selected Publications
Forging A Christian Order: South Carolina Baptists, Race, and Slavery, 1696-1860. America’s Baptists Series, University of Tennessee Press, 2023.
- Winner, 2023 Guittard Book Award, Baylor University
- Finalist, 2023 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award, presented annually by the South Carolina Historical Society for the best book of South Carolina history.
“Baptist Revivals in South Carolina during the Second Great Awakening,” in Baptists and Revivalism: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Baptist Studies, ed. William L. Pitts, (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018): 44-63.
"Men, Women, and the Marriage of the Union: Fourth of July Celebrations in Antebellum Georgia, 1825-1860," The Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. XCVIII, No. 3 (Fall, 2014): 129-154.
"South Carolina Baptists, The Primitive-Missionary Schism, and the Revival of the Early 1830s," The South Carolina Historical Magazine Vol. 110, Nos. 3-4 (July-October, 2009): 154-179.
"Parameters of Promiscuity: Sexuality, Violence, and Religion in Upcountry South Carolina," in Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction, eds. Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005): 15-35.
"A Seceding State of Mind: The Antimission Controversy in Upcountry South Carolina, 1820-1860," American Baptist Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 1 (March, 2004): 35-49.
"Toward Humanitarian Ends? Protestants and Slave Reform in South Carolina, 1830-1865," The South Carolina Historical Magazine Vol. 3, No. 103 (July, 2002): 210-225. Malcolm C. Clark Award, Best Article for 2002.
Courses Taught
- HIS 2365 | History of the United States to 1877
- HIS 2366 | History of the United States Since 1877
- HIS 4340 | Southern Identity: Autobiography as History
- HIS 4368 | Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIS 4383 | History of the South
- HIS 5371 | Religion in the American South