Heather Warren

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6719

Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126

Research Interests

American religious history: the many forms of Protestantism and its relation to American culture since the colonial period; the Christian Realists; cooperation among Protestant and Jewish religious educators in the 1920s; character in 20th-century, mainline Protestantism.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cornell University
• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Oxford
• Master of Divinity (MDIV), Emory University
• Master of Arts (MA), Johns Hopkins University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Johns Hopkins University

Books

• Theologians of a New World Order: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Realists, 1920-1948 (NY: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Articles

• "The Discipline and Habit of Theological Reflection," with Joan L. Murray and Mildred M. Best, Journal of Religion & Health, 41, no. 4 (Winter, 2002)
• "Authority and Grace: A Response to Robert Bellah," The Hedgehog Review, 4, no. 1 (Spring, 2002)
• "The Shift from Character to Personality in Mainline Personality, 1935-1945," Church History (September, 1998)
• "Character, Public Schooling, and Religious Education, 1920-1934," Religion and American Culture (Winter, 1997)
• "Educating for God and Country: Cooperation among Jewish and Christian Religious Educators, 1927-1933," Religious Education (Spring, 1996)
• "Intervention and International Organization: American Reformed Leaders and World War II," American Presbyterian Journal of Presbyterian History (Spring, 1996)
• "The Theological Discussion Group and Its Impact on American and Ecumenical Theology, 1920-1945, Church History (December, 1993)

Honors

• Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute for Women in Higher Education and Faith-Based Organizations, 2001
• David E. Harrison Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1999
• Distinguished Faculty Award, Z Society, 1998
• Service Learning Initiative Grant, 1998-1999
• Louisville Institute Team Teaching Awarad, 1996-1997
• Harrison Fund Teaching Award, 1996
• Rhodes Scholar (Tennessee and Trinity, 1982)

Professional Affiliations

• The American Historical Association
• The Organization of American Historians
• The American Society of Church History
• The Conference on Faith and History
• Ordained Elder, Virginia Annual Conference(ret.), The United Methodist Church

Personal information

• Two children:
  • Hannah Jean Burgess (9/30/95)
  • Benedict Andrew Burgess (7/16/97)
• Long distance hiker; trail maintainer - Potomac Appalachian Trail Club;
• Viola; guitar