• Heather Miyano Kopelson
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2008
  
  
  
  hmkopelson@bama.ua.edu
  
  
  

  Research Interests:

• Race and gender in the Atlantic world
• Early American religion
• Slavery in the early Americas
• Native American history
  

Courses Currently Taught:

• History American Civilization to 1865

Current Projects:

• Performing Faith: Religious Practice and Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Puritan Atlantic (book project)
• an article on the prosecution of unlawful sex in the puritan Atlantic

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University (2007-2008)
• Carpenter Fellow in Early American Religious Studies, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2006-2007)
• W. M. Keck and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations Fellowship, The Huntington Library (2005-2006)
• W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society (2004-2005)
• Research Grant, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (2004-2005)
• John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization Research Fellowship, Brown University (2003)