Assistant Professor of American Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2018

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7474
• Email: skoenig1@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-204
• Office Hours: MWR 10:00-11:00 am

Education:

• B.A., Trinity Western University,
• M.A.R., Yale Divinity School/Yale Institute of Sacred Music
• Ph.D. Yale University
• CV

Courses Offered:

• America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• History Matters (American freedom struggles, 1865–present)
• Introduction to American Studies
• Magic and Witchcraft in North America (first-year seminar)
• Native Americans
• Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• The American West

Research Interests:

• Religion and Race in the American West
• History and Memory
• Gender and Material Culture

Scholarly Activity:

Books:

• Providence and the Invention of American History (Yale University Press, 2021).

Articles:

• “The Legend of Marcus Whitman and the Transformation of the American Historical Profession.” Church History 87, no. 1 (Spring, 2018): 99-121
• “Almighty God and the Almighty Dollar: Religion and Market Economies in the United States,” Religion Compass 10, no. 4 (April 2016): 83–97.
• “Maternalism and the Mayor: Dottie Do-Good’s War on Sin in Postwar Portland.” Journal of Women’s History. Vol. 26. No. 4. (Winter, 2014). 108–131.

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries: 

• “Christian America, Manifest Destiny, and Other Comforting Myths,” in Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield 2022).
• “Henry Harmon Spalding,” “Daniel Lee,” “Cushing Eells,” “F. N. Blanchet.” In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (4 vols, Rowman & Littlefield).