Kelly Cross Elliott, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Global Studies, Abilene Christian University
501-593-0611/kelly.elliott@acu.edu
Education
PhD, British history, Florida State University 2010
M.A., European history, Florida State University 2007
B.A., history, with French minor, Harding University 2005
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Global Studies, ACU 2010-present
Graduate Instructor, Department of History, Florida State University 2007-2010
Graduate Instructor, FSU Study Abroad, London, UK Spring 2009
Book Project
“Chosen Race:” Colonial Christianity against the Hierarchies of Empire (currently revising after feedback from Ashgate Press)
Publications
“The Evangelical Quadrilateral Travels into the Empire: Indigenous Activism in India,” Fides et Historia vol. 47:1 (Winter/Spring 2015), 46-53.
Review of Parna Sengupta, Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal in Journal of World History 24.3 (2013).
Review of Xinru Liu, The Silk Road in World History in Chronicle of Historical Studies, vol. VIII (2012).
Review of Andrew Porter, Religion versus Empire? Protestant Missions and Overseas Expansion 1700-1914 in Journal of Faith and the Academy (October 2009).
Selected Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
“Christianity and the Rejection of Britishness in Colonial Bengal, 1800-1860,” Christian Scholars Conference. Abilene, Texas, June 2015.
“‘Jesus Christ’s Golam:’ Bengali Baptist Evangelists, 1800-1865,” Conference on Faith and History, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, September 2014.
Invited Panel Presentation, “The Evangelical Quadrilateral Travels into the Empire: Indigenous Activism in India,” David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain Turns Twenty-Five. American Society of Church History/American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2014.
“Interpreting Native Christian Testimony in Baptist Missionary Publications,” Evidence. North American Victorian Studies Association. Pasadena, California, October 2013.
“Negative Testimony and Native Christian Voices in Baptist Missionary Publications,” Western Conference on British Studies. Las Vegas, Nevada, September 2012.
Panel Convener/Session Chair, Reconciliation and Cross-Cultural Mission: Perspectives from Literary Criticism, Fine Art Photography, and Stone-Campbell History, Christian Scholars Conference. Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee. June 2012.
“Baptist Conversion in the Colonial Context, 1801-1840,” Invited Scholarly Lecture at Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Symposium on Evangelicalism and Revival, October 20, 2011.
Convener/Panelist, “British Official and Missionary Responses to Obeah in the British Caribbean, 1825-1845.” European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.
“‘Unconquered Realms of Paganism:’ Depictions of Difference in British Missionary Publications, 1800-1840.” God in the Wilderness: Spiritual and Geographic Frontiers (Panel Convener). Christian Scholars Conference, Pepperdine University. Malibu, California, June 2011.
“Providential History as Divine Metanarrative in Baptist Missionary Publications, 1799-1840.” American Society of Church History, Grand Rapids, MI, April 2011.
“Indian Responses to Christian Missions in Bengal, 1795-1875.” International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, University Center, Chicago, February 2011.
Panel Convener/Session Chair, “Expressions of the Inexpressible:” The Divine in Nature, Poetry, and the Icon. Christian Scholars Conference, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, June 2010.
“Scenes of Dissipation: The British Response to Obeah in the Caribbean, 1820-1840.” New Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Religious History (Panel Convener). Christian Scholars Conference, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, June 2009.
“Identity and the Colonial Encounter: the Baptist Mission in Jamaica, 1838-1850.” Gulf Coast Colonialist Colloquium, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 2007.
Honors and Awards
MacLellan Foundation Grant in support of American Society of Church History Panel marking the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain 2014
Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellowship, Appalachian State University (declined) 2010
Lynn E. May Research Grant, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives 2009
J. Leitch Wright Research Award for Excellence in Research, FSU 2007
Courses Offered
At Abilene Christian University, Fall 2010-present: Civilizations I, Civilizations II (face-to-face and online), Core 120, Core 210, Modern Britain, History of Asia, Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (full semester and as January short course), Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Recent Europe, Mongols, Poppies, and Satyagraha: India, China, and the West since the Fourteenth Century, Historical Methods, Historiography Capstone, World History Survey
At Florida State University, Fall 2007-Spring 2010: Early Modern World History, Nineteenth-Century Europe
At FSU Study Abroad in London, Spring 2009: Britain in the Early Modern World, Britain in the Modern World
Professional Service
Faculty Sponsor, Zeta Beta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta Fall 2011-present
Editorial Review Board, Tenor of the Times Undergraduate Research Journal, Harding University. 2014-2015
Session Chair/Comment and Paper Judge, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conferences at regional Texas universities 2011, 2012, 2014
University and Department Service
Undergraduate Research Festival Proposals Committee 2014-2015
Session Chair, ACU Phi Alpha Theta Conference for Undergraduate Research April 2015
College of Arts and Sciences Academic Council Fall 2011-Spring 2014
Academic Advising, Dept. of History Spring 2011-present (Advisor to all history majors starting Fall 2013)
Directed Independent Study, Medieval Christianity Spring 2011
M.A. Thesis Committees and Honors Capstone Committees 2011-present
McNair Scholar Mentor 2014
Professional Memberships
European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
North American Conference on British Studies (Western Conference on British Studies)
American Society of Church History
North American Victorian Studies Association
American Historical Association