Jennifer A. Adler
URHP Coordinator, Assistant Professor
- ADLERJ@mail.etsu.edu
- 423-439-6687
- Roger Stout Hall Room 107
Education:
A.B., 2004, Harvard College
M.A., 2012, Vanderbilt University
Ph.D., 2015, Vanderbilt University
About Dr. Adler
A first-generation college student from Bloomington, Indiana, Dr. Jennifer Axsom Adler
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an A.B. in Government and earned
an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation explored
how nineteenth-century American Protestants came to regard the Holy Land as a material
gospel — a place that preserved an authoritative and experiential account of sacred
history and that could be plainly read, interpreted, and reproduced. Her primary research
focuses are American religious history, sacred space, ritual, material culture, and
lived religious experience. She teaches courses on American religious history, world
religions, African American religions, gender, and material culture.
Areas of Academic Specialty
Christian History
Sacred Space and Landscape