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Rodney Hessinger, Ph.D

Professor - History

Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences - College of Arts and Sciences

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eMail

rhessinger@jcu.edu

Phone Number - History

216-397-4987

Phone Number - College of Arts and Sciences

216-397-4987

Location - History

B-Wing 101c

Location - College of Arts and Sciences

B-Wing 101c

Employee Type

Faculty

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Biography

Rodney Hessinger is an early American historian.  His courses focus on the social and cultural dimensions of the American past, exploring fields as diverse as Native American history, evangelical religion, the family and childhood, the colonial Caribbean, and the history of sexuality.   He is the author of Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).  His current project is an exploration of religious conflict in the early American republic.  It pays particular attention to the way that churches deployed sexual scandal against their religious rivals.  This project, entitled “Smitten: Sex and Sectarian Conflict in the Second Great Awakening,” is under contract with Cornell University Press.