PAUL WILLIAM HARRIS
TITLE: Professor
ADDRESS:
Department of History
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN 56563
Phone: 218-477-4045
harrispa@mnstate.edu
www.moorhead.msus.edu/harris
EDUCATION:
1986: Ph.D. in American Culture, The University of Michigan
1980: M.A. in American Culture, The University of Michigan
1976: B. A.; State University of New York at Binghamton
Majors: American Studies, History
ACADEMIC HONORS:
2007-08: Faculty Research Grant, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Su. 2001: Faculty Research Grant, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Su. 2000: Faculty Research Grant, Minnesota State University Moorhead
1999: Phi Kappa Phi, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Su.1994: Faculty Research Grant, Moorhead State University
Sp. 1993: Release Time for Scholarly Activity, Moorhead State University
Su. 1993: Faculty Research Grant, Moorhead State University
Sp. 1992: Release Time for Scholarly Activity, Moorhead State University
1984-85: Fulbright lecturer, Universität Oldenburg, West Germany
1982-83: Charlotte Newcombe Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
1982-83: Radcliffe-Ramsdell Fellow, The University of Michigan
1978-79: Rackham First-Year Fellow
1976: Phi Beta Kappa, SUNY at Binghamton
DISSERTATION:
“Missionaries, Martyrs, and Modernizers: Autobiography and Reform Thought in American Protestant Missions”
Advisor: David Hollinger
PUBLICATIONS: (refereed)
Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions, Oxford University Press (1999)
"In Defence of Mass Conversion: John E. Clough and the American Baptist Telugu Mission, 1865-1910,” in Baptists and Mission: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Baptist Studies, ed. By Ian M. Randall and Anthony R. Cross (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2007)
"Denominationalism and Democracy: Ecclesiastical Issues Underlying Rufus Anderson's Three Self Program," in North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy, ed. by Wilbert R. Shenk (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, and Richmond, U.K.: Curzon Press, 2004)
"The Social Dimensions of Foreign Missions: Emma Rauschenbusch Clough and Social Gospel Ideology," in Gender and the Social Gospel, ed. by Wendy Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
“David Brainerd and the Indians: Cultural Interaction and Protestant Missionary Ideology,” American Presbyterians, LXXII, 1 (Spring 1994), 1-9
“Cultural Imperialism and American Protestant Missions: Collaboration and Dependency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century China,” Pacific Historical Review, LX, 3 (August 1991), 309-338
reprinted as “Protestant Missionaries and Cultural Imperialism in China,” in Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Vol. I: to 1920, ed. by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1995), 330-342
“A Checkered Life: Yung Wing’s American Education,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, II, 1 (April 1994), 87-107
PUBLICATIONS: (other)
review of Christopher H. Evans, The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch, in Church History, 74 (September 2005), 648-650
review of Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, eds., The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History, in Journal of American History, 91 (June 2004), 300-301
review of David K. Adams and Cornelis A. Van Minnen, eds., Religious and Secular Reform in America: Ideas, Beliefs and Social Change, in Religious Studies Review, XXVI (July 2000), 299
review of Douglas M. Strong, Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy, in Religious Studies Review, XXVI (July 2000), 295
“Jonathan Dickinson” and “Samuel Davies,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vols. 24 & 31 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark, 1984)
“Julia Clifford Lathrop, 1858-1932,” Book of Days, 1988 (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1988)
“Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1807,” Book of Days, 1987 (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1986)
Review of Jonathan Edwards, The Life of Brainerd, ed. Norman Pettit, in International Bulletin of Missionary Research, X, 3 (July 1986)
“’How Absurd Soever They May Be’: The Chinese Repository and Anthropological Interpretation,” Michigan Discussions in Anthropology,VI, 2 (Winter 1981), 126-148
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Brothers and Strangers: Racial Reconciliation and Methodist Missions to Africa,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, October 2007
“The Abolitionist Legacy in Methodist Missions to Africa,” Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, June 2007
“What Color Is Civilization? The 1895 Congress on Africa,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, March 2007
“In Defense of Mass Conversion: John E. Clough and the American Baptist Telugu Mission, 1865-1910,” International Conference on Baptist Studies, July 2006
"After the Missionaries: Cultural Responses to Globalization," International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Greece, July 2003
"A Talented Tenth for China: Yung Wing, W.E.B. DuBois, and the Politics of Education," Blacks and Asians in the Making of the Modern World: A Conversation Across Fields, Boston University, April 2003
"Rufus Anderson in India: Seeing the Indigenous Context of the Three-Self Policy," Travel-Missions-Empire conference, University of Aberdeen, U.K., June 2001
"Beyond the Passive Convert: Emma Rauschenbusch Clough and the Indigenous Origins of Conversion Movements," Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, June 2000
"Neither Saints nor Devils: Problems of Interpretation in Foreign
Missionary History," College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Colloquium Series, Moorhead State University, February 2000
"The Social Gospel and Foreign Missions: Emma Rauschenbusch Clough and the Social Origins of Conversion Movements," paper presented at the Second Annual Social Gospel Conference, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, March 1999
“Denominationalism and Democracy: Ecclesiastical Issues Underlying Rufus Anderson’s Three Self Program,” paper presented to the North Atlantic Missiology Project consultation in Madison, WI, November 1997
“The Evangelical Armenians: Indigenous Churches and Ethnic Nationalism, 1831-1860,” paper presented to the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity in New Haven, CT, June 1997
“Enlightenment and Subordination: The Uses of Education in Protestant Foreign Missions,” Tri-College History Lecture, April 1996
with John Johanson, “’Nothing Tends So Much to Corrupt’: The Etymology of Dependence in the Enlightenment,” paper presented at the 1992 Northern Great Plains History Conference
“David Brainerd in the Wilderness: The Missionary Construction of the Other,” paper presented at “America as Text(s),” a conference in honor of John Owen King, Ann Arbor, Mich., April 1990
“Business Interests and Business Values in American Protestant Missions: An Examination of Cultural Imperialism in Mid-Nineteenth Century China,” paper presented at the 1987 Northern Great Plains History Conference
“Ideas of World Mission in U.S. History”, paper presented at the Amerikakundliche Tagung fuer Lehrer aus Nordwestdeutschland, May 1985
“American Blacks and Indian Untouchables: Education and Reform in Protestant Missions”, paper presented at the 1983 convention of the American Studies Association
“A Checkered Life: Yung Wing and American Education”, paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 1982
“Historical and Literary Approaches to Autobiography: The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher as a Case Study,” paper presented at the 1981 convention of the American Studies Association
TEACHING FIELDS:
U.S. History
U.S. Social and Intellectual History
History of Religion in America
African-American History
History of Women in America
Welfare History
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
MSUM Faculty Association Treasurer, 2004-
History Department chair, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1994-95, 1996-2005
Inter Faculty Organization Government Relations Committee, 2000-
Scholarship Awarding Committee, Moorhead State University, 1996-2000
Liberal Studies Committee, Moorhead State University, 1992-95
MSU Faculty Association Grievance Committee, 1992-94
MSU Faculty Association Executive Council, 1990-92
Human Relations Committee, Moorhead State University, 1989-91
Women’s Studies Committee, Moorhead State University, 1986-89
American Studies Association Students Committee, 1982-85
Conference Co-Coordinator, The Puritan Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America, Ann Arbor, 1982
Program in American Culture Admissions Committee, University of Michigan, 1979 and 1980
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Clay County Historical Society, board member, 1993-99; vice president, 1996-97; president, 1997-99
Old South Moorhead Neighborhood Association, founder, coordinator, and newsletter editor, 1994-
Gooseberry Park Players youth theatre program, board member, 1999-; secretary, 2000-2001; vice-president, 2001-03
MEMBERSHIPS:
Organization of American Historians
Minnesota Historical Society
Clay County Historical Society
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Plains Art Museum
Rourke Art Museum and Gallery
REFERENCES:
Dr. Virginia Klenk, emeritus Dean of Arts and Humanities, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Prof. Dieter Berninger, Professor of History and American Multicultural Studies, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Prof. I. Kenneth Smemo, Professor of History, Minnesota State University Moorhead
