Faculty Profile for Dr. Joshua Allen Paddison

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Dr. Joshua Allen Paddison
Senior Lecturer — History
TMH 202
phone: (512) 245-2142

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Historian of religion, race, and North American Wests

Teaching Interests

U.S. History; world history; religion; race; American West; Civil War & Reconstruction

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Paddison, J. A. (2019). “The Mystery of Everything Out There: Bigfoot and Religion in the Twenty-First Century.” In The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape (pp. 78–91). New York, United States: Routledge.
  • Paddison, J. A. (2016, December). “New Directions in the History of Religion and Race". American Quarterly.
  • Paddison, J. A. (2015, October). “Disorderly Doctrines: Religion, Race, and the Fountaingrove Sex Scandal of 1891-1892.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
  • Paddison, J. (2012). American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, United Staes: University of California Press.
  • Paddison, J. A. (2009, October). “Anti-Catholicism and Race in Post-Civil-War San Francisco.” Pacific Historical Review.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Non-Tenure Line Faculty Committee
August 2023-July 2024
Faculty Advisor
Pickleballers at Texas State University
August 2023-July 2024
Faculty Advisor
History Club
January 2023-December 2023
Faculty Advisor
History Club
2022-2022
Editorial Review Board Member
California History journal
2022-2022