About This Project

American Religious Ecologies is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media that is creating new datasets, maps and visualizations for the history of American religion. With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are currently digitizing the 1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies, which has individual schedules for approximately 232,000 congregations. We are also investigating denominational records and other sources of data.

If you use this project, we would be grateful if you would cite it. Here is a suggested citation:

American Religious Ecologies, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University (2018–): http://religiousecologies.org.

Contributors

Nirajan Adhikari, undergraduate research assistant

Ida Akiwumi, UX researcher, RRCHNM

Ken Albers, software developer, RRCHNM

Donna Baker, grants administrator, RRCHNM

Rachel Birch, graduate research assistant

Isabella Blakley, undergraduate research assistant

Jordan Bratt, graduate research assistant

Brandan Buck, graduate research assistant for spatial data

Bridget Bukovich, community engagement coordinator, RRCHNM

Abderraouf Deghdegh, undergraduate research assistant

Olivia Degraff, undergraduate research assistant

Truman Deree, graduate research assistant

Reagan Emmerling, undergraduate research assistant

Kaila Etienne-Best, undergraduate research assistant

Thana Fazelyar, undergraduate research assistant

Alexis Frambes, research associate

Paris Frascella, undergraduate research assistant

Danielle Gaita, undergraduate research assistant

Caroline Greer, project manager and graduate research assistant

Imran Haq, undergraduate research assistant

Jason Heppler, senior web developer, RRCHNM

Julia Hoffer, grants administrator, RRCHNM

Kristin Jacobsen, graduate research assistant

God’s Will Katchoua, systems administrator, RRCHNM

William Keeler, undergraduate intern

Hibba Khan, undergraduate research assistant

Alison Langford, office administrator

Paige Leddy, undergraduate research assistant

Jannelle Legg, graduate research assistant

Andrew Leitner, undergraduate research assistant

Megan Merillat, graduate research assistant

Lincoln Mullen, co–project director

Kim Nguyen, web designer, RRCHNM

Thanh Nguyen, office manager, RRCHNM

Megan Pellerin, undergraduate research assistant

Anna Putnam, undergraduate research assistant

Naomi Reed, undergraduate research assistant

Harval Reyes, undergraduate research assistant

Jim Safley, senior software developer & metadata specialist, RRCHNM

Nayomi Santos, undergraduate research assistants

Savannah Scott, graduate research assistant

Lydia Sigman, undergraduate research assistant

Ava Smigliani, undergraduate research assistant

Kris Stinson, graduate research assistant

Greta Swain, project manager and graduate research assistant

Tony Trinh, systems administrator

John Turner, co–project director

Rachel Whyte, project manager and graduate research assistant

Stephanie Vu, undergraduate research assistant

Advisory board

Margaret Bendroth, Congregational Library and Archives

David Campbell, Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Christopher D. Cantwell, History, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Edward E. Curtis IV, Religious Studies, IUPUI

Kate Carté, History, Southern Methodist University

Jeanne Kilde, Religious Studies, University of Minnesota

Robert K. Nelson, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond

Judith Weisenfeld, Religion, Princeton University

About our funder

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in American Religious Ecologies, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in American Religious Ecologies, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.