Personal profile
Research Interests
I am interested in studying the history of race and religion in the United States and throughout the world. To that end I have studied how interactions between white and African-American Mennonites in homes and sanctuaries brought about changes as significant as those initiated in the streets by the formal civil rights movement. Currently I am writing a biography of the African-American historian and activist Vincent Harding.
Teaching Experience
AAST/HSTA 141 Black: From Africa to Hip-hop and Beyond
AAST/HSTA 343 African-American History Since 1865
AAST/HSTA 345 The Black Radical Tradition
AAST/HSTA 374 Voodoo, Muslim, Church: Black Religion
AAST 391 White Supremacy: History/Defeat
AAS/HSTA 417 Prayer and Civil Rights
AAS/HSTA 562 Problems in African-American History
HSTR 221 God: Past, Puzzle, Present
HSTA 502 Readings in Modern American History
HSTA 595 U.S. Religious History
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, History & Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Religion and social protest movements
Shearer, T. M., Jun 15 2021, Taylor and Francis. 179 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
6 Scopus citations -
The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia
Shearer, T. M., Jan 1 2020, The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress. Edinburgh University Press, p. 213-226 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A Principled Pedagogy for Religious Educators
Evans, D. & Shearer, T. M., Jan 1 2017, In: Religious Education. 112, 1, p. 7-18 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Scopus citations -
Two weeks every summer
Shearer, T. M., Jan 1 2017, Cornell University Press. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
5 Scopus citations -
Invoking crisis: Performative Christian prayer and the civil rights movement
Shearer, T. M., Jun 1 2015, In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 83, 2, p. 490-512 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
9 Scopus citations