{"id":11161,"date":"2016-04-14T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2016-04-14T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:45:43","slug":"sara-georgini-defends-dissertation-accepts-series-editor-position-at-adams-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/2016\/04\/14\/sara-georgini-defends-dissertation-accepts-series-editor-position-at-adams-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Georgini Defends Dissertation, Accepts Series Editor Position at Adams Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"\/history\/files\/2016\/04\/SEG-Photo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/history\/files\/2016\/04\/SEG-Photo4.jpg\" alt=\"SEG Photo[4]\" width=\"121\" height=\"179\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11162 alignleft\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On Wednesday, April 6, graduate student Sara Georgini successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, \u201cHousehold Gods: Creating Adams Family Religion in the American Republic, 1583-1927.\u201d Over the course of the long nineteenth century, American Christianity changed dramatically, leaving lasting imprints on how families lived, worked, played, and prayed. As America\u2019s prolific \u201cfirst family,\u201d the Adamses of Massachusetts were key interpreters of the place of religion within a rapidly changing American republic facing denominational turf wars, anti-Catholic violence, a burgeoning market economy, Civil War, shifting gender roles, and the collapse of providentialism. Constant globe-trotters who documented their cultural travels, the Adamses developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt. As Georgini explains, the Adamses\u2019 cosmopolitan encounters led them to become leading lay critics of New England religion, even as they marshaled Christian rhetoric to sustain American democracy. While scholars have relied on \u201cfringe\u201d groups to explain the growth and democratization of American Christianity, little has been studied of seekers like the Adamses, transnational agents of American thought and culture who sought avidly among other faiths yet chose to stay within the mainline fold. This study offers a new perspective on the political dynasty, by mapping the religious journeys of Americans who looked for God in eclectic places and then made their return, greatly changed, to the family pew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Georgini will receive her Ph.D. at commencement in May. She has accepted a full-time position as Series Editor of <i>The Papers of John Adams<\/i>, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshist.org\/adams\/?goto=adams\"><span class=\"s2\">The Adams Papers<\/span><\/a> editorial project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshist.org\/adams\/?goto=adams\"><span class=\"s2\">Massachusetts Historical Society<\/span><\/a>. She is a co-founder and contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyamericanists.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">The Junto:<\/span><\/a> A Group Blog on Early American History and the <a href=\"http:\/\/s-usih.org\/blog\"><span class=\"s2\">Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog<\/span><\/a>. She tweets about public history, American religion, library life, and digital humanities: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarageorgini\"><span class=\"s2\">@sarageorgini<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On Wednesday, April 6, graduate student Sara Georgini successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, \u201cHousehold Gods: Creating Adams Family Religion in the American Republic, 1583-1927.\u201d Over the course of the long nineteenth century, American Christianity changed dramatically, leaving lasting imprints on how families lived, worked, played, and prayed. As America\u2019s prolific \u201cfirst family,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}