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Jpettegrew

Email:jpettegrew@shorter.edu

Dr. Justin Pettegrew

Tenured Professor of History
706/233-7326
jpettegrew@shorter.edu 315 Shorter Ave.
Rome, Georgia 30165

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago – Ph.D. in History (2006)
    • Dissertation: “Onward Christian Soldiers: the Transformation of Religion, Masculinity, and Class in the Chicago YMCA, 1857 – 1932″
    • Exam Fields: Major: completed in U.S. Urban, Cultural, and Religious History
    • Minor: completed in Modern European History
  • Minnesota State University – M.A. in History (1997)
    • Master’s Thesis: “Wells Memorial Settlement House, 1908 – 1948″
    • Exam Fields: Major: completed in U.S. Social and Cultural History
    • Minor: completed in Political Science
  • Pillsbury College – B.S. (1993)
    • Majors: History and Theology – Magna Cum Laude

Courses Taught

  • American Civilization II
  • Civil War and Reconstruction, 1845-1877
  • Introduction to Historical Methods
  • The United States in Transition, 1867 – 1930
  • The United States during the War Years 1914-1945
  • The United States 1945-Present
  • World Civilization since 1648

Conference/Paper Presentations

  • Chair for Panel, “Masculinity in Crisis: A Comparative Approach to Definitions of Male Identity” at the Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, MI October 17 and 18, 2008
  • Discussant “Reinventing Georgia: Infrastructure and Culture in the New South” at the Georgia Association of Historians Conference, Savannah, GA February 25 and 26, 2011
  • Paper presented: “D.L. Moody in the Chicago YMCA: The Active Christian Man and the Business of Revivalism”, Conference on Awakenings and Revivals in American History, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia – April 17, 2009
  • Paper presented: “Ending the Male Only Policy: Heterosocial Trends and Religious Alterations in the Chicago YMCA: 1920-1933”, Grand Valley State University, History Department Colloquium – April 7, 2008
  • Paper presented: “From Revivalism to the ‘Four-Fold’ Plan: Religious, Gender, and Cultural Transitions in the Chicago YMCA, 1880 – 1900”, Newberry Library, Urban History Dissertation Group, Chicago, Illinois – December 10, 2005
  • Paper presented: “The Foundation and Early Work of the Chicago YMCA: 1853 – 1865”, Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Illinois – October 27, 2005

Publications

  • “Fundamentalism in the Jazz Age” in James Ciment ed., The Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: 1918-1929(New York: M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2008).
  • “Rescuing Young Men from the ‘Ruin of the City,’” The Journal of Illinois History, Autumn, 2007

University Service

  • General Education Committee
  • Academic Advising Committee
  • Eta Pi Sigma Advisor

Church and Community Service

  • Member and Deacon of First Presbyterian Church, Rome
  • Sunday School Teacher
  • Vacation Bible School
  • Operation Christmas Child