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Bio: Katherine Carté is a professor of history at 51²è¹Ý. She is the author, most recently, of Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in 2021, which won the Albert W. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History. She is also the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and she has published articles in Church History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Early American Studies. She has received fellowships from the ACLS, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is currently studying the role of religion, trust, and partisanship in revolutionary-era Savannah, Georgia.

Educational Background

Ph.D., history, University of Wisconsin; B.A., Haverford College

Courses Taught

Selected Publications

“Connecting Protestant in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire,” William & Mary Quarterly, January 2018, 75(1), 37-70.

“,” Common-place, 15(3), May 2015.

 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, paper 2011).

“The SPCK and the American Revolution: The Limits of International Protestantism,” Church History, March 2012, 8(1), 77-103.

“Moravians in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World,” Journal of Moravian History, 12(1), Spring 2012, 1-19.

“Religion and the Economy: New Methods for an Old Problem,” Early American Studies 8(3), Fall 2010, 482-514.