DARREN GREM
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2018-present
Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2012-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2011-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University, 2010-2011

EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2010
University of Georgia
M.A., 2004
University of Georgia
B.A., 2001
Furman University

Books
---- Hard Times, U.S.A.: The Great Depression and New Deal in American Memory (in progress)
---- Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, with Ted Ownby and James G. Thomas, Jr., eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019)
---- The Business Turn in American Religious History, with John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
---- The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)

Public Scholarship
 (selected)
---- “Depressionlands: The 1930s in the American Memorial Landscape,” National Endowment for the Humanities and Center for Practical Ethics Conference on “Memorialization: Theory, Methods, Goals, and Ethics,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, March 14-15, 2025. 
---- “Splintered Memories of the Great Depression and New Deal,” Realms of Memory, 2024.  Available on podcast here. 
---- “Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons and the South’s Great Depression in American Memory,” SouthTalks, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, April 10, 2024. Available on YouTube here. 
---- “From Remembrance to Redevelopment: Memory, Place, and the General Textile Strike of 1934,” Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University-Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, March 28-29, 2024.  Panel: “The Sociology and History of Place.”  
---- “Race, Racism, and the Great Depression in American Memory,” Coalition for the Study of Race and Racism, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, February 26, 2024.

Articles/Chapters (selected)
----- “On Teaching Southern History at the 'Most Southern University on Earth,'” The Journal of Southern History (forthcoming).
----- “Y’all-in-the-Box Faiths: The American South and the Religion Problem in Modern American History,” Modern American History (forthcoming).   
----- “Capitalism, Religion, and Politics,” Routledge History of U.S. Religion and Politics, Lauren Turek and Cara Burnidge, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2024). 
----- “Business,” The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
----- “Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism,” Enterprise & Society (March 2014)
----- “The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
----- “Selling a ‘Disneyland for the Devout’: Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker’s Heritage USA,” in Dominic Janes, ed., Shopping for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Press, 2008).
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