Curriculum Vitae
DownloadNEALL W. POGUE
Assistant Professor,
History Department
The University of Alaska, Fairbanks
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Department of History
Gruening Building 604C
1747 South Chandalar Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775
nwpogue@alaska.edu
Neallpogue.net
Education
| 2016 | Ph.D., History, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Dissertation: “The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Protestants and the Environmental Movement, 1970-2010.” |
| 2010 | M.A., History, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. Thesis: “The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the Environment in the 1970s. |
| 2006 | Cert., (Ed.) Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. |
| 2003 | B.A. (with Honors) History, St. Andrews University, United Kingdom. Thesis: “The New Middle Ground: Diplomacy and Opportunity in the Reservation Era, 1850-1900.” Topic: Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and the Great Plains Reservation Era. |
Professional Appointments
| 2023- | Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK. |
| 2018-23 | Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. |
| 2017-18 | Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. |
| 2017 | Adjunct Professor of History, Babson College, Babson Park, MA. |
| 2016 | Adjunct Professor of History, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA. |
| 2014 - 2016 | Graduate Student Lecturer of History, Texas A&M University, College Station. |
| 2010 - 2014 | Teaching Assistant/Discussion Leader, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. |
| 2008 - 2010 | Teaching Assistant. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. |
| 2006 - 2008 | Secondary School History Teacher. NSU University School, Davie, FL. |
Qualified Teaching Areas:
Environmental history/studies, religion and ecology/nature; early American history; modern American history; religion and politics; American popular culture; early and modern world history; research, technical writing and intellectual inquiry.
Publications
Monograph
| 2022 | The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, April, 2022. Weblink: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762000/the-nature-of-the-religious-right/#bookTabs=1 |
| Praise: | “Stellar. Pogue draws on an impressive range of archival and secondary sources to advance a highly nuanced and provocative argument about the transformation of evangelical/fundamentalist beliefs about environment and earth care between the early 1970s and present day.”
-Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame, author of Anointed with Oil |
| “The account is well written, carefully argued, and based on meticulous historical scholarship.”
-Susannah Crockford, University of Exeter, featured in the Journal of Religion |
Refereed Journals
| 2024 | “Winning Against God’s Earth: The Religious Right’s Use of a Competition Framework to Justify Anti-Environmentalism.” The Journal of American Culture 47:1 (March 2024): 49-55. |
| 2022 | “Making America Great Again in Christian Schools: Using Historical Narratives of Chaos and Order to Make ‘Real Americans.’” Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 14:1 (Autumn 2022):114-132. |
| 2016 | “The Religious Right’s Compassionate Steward and Conservationist: The Lost Environmental Philosophies of Pat Robertson, 1977-1989.” Environmental Ethics 38:4 (Winter 2016): 483 – 497. |
Book Review
| 2023 | “Barry Lyons and Linda Nieman, Virginia’s Calling”. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, June, 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.21941 |
| 2017 | Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism, by Evan Berry, Church History 86:1 (March 2017): 258-260. |
Contributor
| 2016 | Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, s.v. “Ministries with the Blind,” “Holt International Children’s Service” and “International Lutheran Layman’s League.” Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2016. |
Work in Progress
| Chapter | Invited contributor to a proposed book titled Handbook of Religion and the Environment published by Edward Elgar. Planned for publication in 2025 |
Conference Participation
| 2024 | “Using Gender Narratives to Stop Earth Worshippers: How the Religious Right Employed the ‘Hysterical Female’ to Oppose the Environmental Movement.” American Society of Church History, San Francisco, January 4-7. |
| 2022 | “From Nature Stewardship to Anti-Environmentalism: How Two Evangelical Organizations Supported and then Rejected Environmental Protection, 1990-1994.” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Eugene, Oregon, March 23-27. |
| 2021 | “From Nature Stewardship to Anti-Environmentalism: How Two Evangelical Organizations Supported and then Rejected Environmental Protection, 1990-1994.” International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, online, February 18-28, 2021. |
| 2021 | “Surviving the Anti-Environmental Onslaught of the Religious Right: How a Small Group of Theological Conservative Evangelicals Survived and Spread the Message of Combatting Anthropogenic Climate Change, 1993- 2000.” American Historical Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, January 7-10. |
| 2020 | “From Nature Stewardship to Anti-Environmentalism: How Two Evangelical Organizations Supported and then Rejected Environmental Protection, 1990-1994.” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Ottawa, Canada, March 25 – 29. |
| 2016 | “The Bully Pulpit: Public Humiliation and the Shaping of Anti- Environmentalism in the Religious Right, 1990-Present.” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 30 – April 3. |
| 2013 | “The Two Faces of Nature: Conflicting Conservative Protestant Views, 1970- 1984.” American Historical Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2 – 5. |
| 2012 | “Christianity’s Right Kind of Nature, 1970-1988.” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, March 28 - 31. |
| 2011 | “The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Protestants and the Environment in the 1970s.” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 13 – 17. |
| 2010 | “The Lost Environmentalists.” Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Conference, San Diego, California. |
| 2009 | “The New Middle Ground: Diplomacy and Opportunity in the Reservation Era 1850-1900.” Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota. |
| 2009 | “The Significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.” Phi Alpha Theta Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota. |
Other Publications and Outreach
| Forthcoming | “The Lost Environmentalists: The Religious Right and God’s Earth,” article invited by Premier Christian magazine, UK.
https://www.premierchristianity.com/ |
| 2024 | Featured in “How Evangelicals Promoted, then Abandoned Environmental Stewardship" by Steve Rabey of Baptist News Global
https://baptistnews.com/article/how-evangelicals-promoted-then-abandoned-environmental-stewardship/ |
| 2024 | Interview for podcast New Books in Religion for the New Books Network invited by host Meghan Cochran.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-nature-of-the-religious-right |
| 2023 | Interviewed for podcast The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life hosted by Dr. John Fea.
https://currentpub.com/2023/10/03/episode-118-evangelicals-and-the-environment/ |
| 2023 | Interviewed by Brian Calvert, Associate Editor, Earth Island Journal. |
| 2023 | “How Evangelicals Moved from Supporting Environmental Stewardship to Climate Skepticism” The Conversation (January 30, 2023)
https://theconversation.com/how-evangelicals-moved-from-supporting-environmental-stewardship-to-climate-skepticism-196727 |
| 2023 | “The Nature of the Religious Right: An Interview with Neall Pogue,” interview by William Trollinger, Righting America, a forum for scholarly conversation about Christianity, culture, and politics in the U.S. (Jan 16, 2023).
https://rightingamerica.net/the-nature-of-the-religious-right-an-interview-with-neall-pogue/ |
| 2023 | “Random Samples with Neall W. Pogue,” interview by Glenn Branch, Reports of the National Center for Science Education.43:1 (Winter 2023): 10.
https://ncse.ngo/sites/default/files/pdfs/REPORTS43_1links.pdf |
| 2022 | “Neall W. Pogue’s The Nature of the Religious Right. The Page 99 Test (May 3, 2022).
http://page99test.blogspot.com/2022/05/neall-w-pogues-nature-of-religious-right.html |
| 2022 | “New Film Explores Birth of Evangelical Climate Activist: Interview with Barry Lyons.” Film review invited by the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. https://www.issrnc.org/2022/04/29/new-film-evangelical-climate-activist-interview-barry-lyons |
| 2022 | Interviewed by Winston Choi-Schagrin, Climate Desk, The New York Times. |
| 2022 | “Teaching Environmental Issues in Christian School Education,” Righting America, a forum for scholarly conversation about Christianity, culture, and politics in the U.S. https://rightingamerica.net/teaching-environmental-issues-in-christian-school-education |
| 2021 - | Cornell University Press Guest Lecturer in: Culture & Cultural Studies, History, Religion & Religious Studies, Science & Nature, U.S. History. |
| 2008 | “U.S. Navy Code Interceptor from Southwest Missouri On the Ground Floor of the Pacific Theater During World War II,” McDonald County Press, Pineville, MO. |
| 2005 | “Further Insight on the Slave Trade; The Ceramics of the Henrietta Marie,” The Navigator, The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, Key West, FL. |
| 2005 | “20 Years Later; the 20th Anniversary of the Main Pile,” The Navigator, The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, Key West, FL. |
Awards and Honors
| 2016 | The Murray and Celeste Fasken Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award. Texas A&M. |
Grants and Fellowships
| 2016 | National Science Foundation travel grant. ASEH conference. |
| 2014 | Lynn E. May, Jr., Study Grant. Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. |
| 2014 | Vision 2020 Dissertation Enhancement Award. Texas A&M. |
| 2014 | Travel Fellowship Grant. Texas A&M. |
| 2013 | Research and Presentation Travel Grant. Texas A&M. |
| 2012 | National Science Foundation travel grant. ASEH conference. |
| 2011 | Travel Fellowship Grant. Texas A&M. |
| 2011 | Melbern G. Glasscock Travel-to-Conference Fellowship. Texas A&M. |
| 2010 | Travel Fellowship Grant. Texas A&M. |
| 2010 | Regent Fellowship. Texas A&M. |
Teaching
Courses Taught
| 2017 - | Environment in America (1 section a year) |
| 2023 - | Early American History (1 section) |
| 2024 - | Modern American History (1 section) |
| 2024 - | Perspectives on History (1 section) |
| 2024 - | The History of Popular Culture since 1945 (1 section) |
| 2017 - 23 | The Nature of Intellectual Inquiry (2 sections a semester) |
| 2018 - 23 | Religion and Politics (1 section a year) |
| 2018 - 23 | American Popular Culture (2 sections a year) |
| 2017 | Environmental Studies (2 sections a semester) |
| 2016 | Pre-Modern World History (1section a semester) |
| 2014 - 15 | Early American History (1 section a semester) |
Teacher Evaluation: 4.75/5.00 (5 = highest excellence)
Service Activities
Reviewer
| 2021 | Article reviewer: Church History, Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Reviewer for student article: The Exley, The University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2017 | Article reviewer: Environmental History, Oxford University Press |
Department Service
| 2024 - | Elected for GERC Faculty Senate Seat |
| 2024 | Judge for Alaska History Day |
| 2023 - | Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Activity Board Member |
| 2023 - | History Department Curriculum Advisory Committee |
| 2022 - 23 | Committee on Committees member |
| 2021 - 23 | Committee on Educational Technology, faculty advisory committee member |
| 2020 - 23 | Selection committee for the Eichorst Scholarship |
| 2020 - 23 | Selection committee for the Seekri Scholarship |
| 2020 - 23 | Selection committee for the Petrick Scholarship |
| 2020 - 23 | Selection committee for Van Amburgh Scholarship |
| 2020 - 23 | Selection committee for the Galerstein Scholarship |
| 2020 - 23 | Auxiliary Serves Advisory Committee |
| 2018 - 23 | Religious Diversity Group faculty co-sponsor |
| 2018 - 23 | New Student Engagement Board (NSEB), faculty advisory committee member |
| 2009 - 10 | Graduate Student Representative (elected), North Dakota State University |
| 2009 - 10 | President of Phi Alpha Theta (elected), North Dakota State University |
| 2008 | Vice President of Phi Alpha Theta, North Dakota State University |
| 2009 | Oral History Videographer. The Germans From Russia Heritage Collection, ND. Link: http://www.digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital |
| 2005 | Archival Internship. Mel Fisher Heritage Maritime Museum. Key West, FL. |
| 2004 - 2005 | Archival Internship. The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library. Historic Deerfield, MA. |
| 2002 | Archival Internship. Historic Northampton. Northampton, MA. 2002. |
Professional Memberships
American Society of Church HistoryAmerican Historical Association
Association Society for Environmental History
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Reviews of The Nature of the Religious Right
Refereed Journals
Crockford, Susana. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement by Neall Pogue, Journal of Religion 103, no. 4 (2023): 193-594.Meagher, R.J. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement by Neall Pogue, Choice Reviews 60, no. 11 (July 2023).
Miller, Eric C. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement/The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change/The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump, Journal of Communication & Religion. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2022) 134-143.
Strasburg, James D. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement by Neall W. Pogue, The Pacific Historical Review 92, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 131-132.
General Publications
Shaffer, Robert. Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the Environment?, The Christian Century, (March 6, 2023).https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/why-did-conservative-evangelicals-turn-against-environment
Branch, Glenn. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement, by Neall Pogue, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 43, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 15.
https://ncse.ngo/sites/default/files/pdfs/REPORTS43_1links.pdf
David F. Garner, David F. Review of The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement, by Neall Pogue, Spectrum (October 2, 2022).
https://spectrummagazine.org/arts-essays/2022/book-review-nature-religious-right