Core Faculty: Bethany Moreton

A native of Mississippi, Bethany Moreton is Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. After receiving her doctorate in history at Yale University in 2006, she spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge and was named the 2009 Emerging Scholar in the Humanities by the University of Michigan. Her first book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009) won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in U.S. history and the John Hope Franklin Award for the best book in American Studies. For 2010-2011, she was a research associate and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Harvard Divinity School.

Author interview, "After Words," Book TV, C-SPAN 2, May 31, 2009: http://www.booktv.org/search.aspx?For=bethany%20moreton

Humanities Award announcement:

A 2005 Wal-Mart Article

An Essay Summarizing the book: Culture War on Aisle 5? Wal-Mart Evangelicals, and "Extreme Capitalism"

Some Reviews of the Book:

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free

Time Higher Education
Nickel and Dimed
What Would Jesus Buy?

Mailing Address:
Department of History
University of Georgia
LeConte Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1602