Adam T. Hogan
Distinguished Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of History
Texas Tech University
adhogan@ttu.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, History, in progress (ABD)
Texas Tech University, 2022-
Dissertation: “Witness to God’s Creation: Cold War Religion, the Leisure Revolution, and A Christian Ministry in the National Parks”
Advisor: Mark Stoll
Master of Arts in Religion, History of Christianity, 2022
Yale Divinity School, 2020-2022
Thesis: “One God, One Nature: An Environmental History of the Stone-Campbell Movement”
Advisor: Kenneth P. Minkema
Master of Arts, American Studies
University of Alabama, 2016-2018
Bachelor of Arts, American Studies
Harding University, 2012-2015
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022-present Distinguished Graduate Student Assistant
Department of History
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Served as teaching assistant for:
HIST2301: U.S. History Since 1877 (online; Prof. Matthew Pehl, Fall 2024)
HIST2301: U.S. History Since 1877 (Prof. Miguel Levario, Fall 2023)
HIST2300: U.S. History to 1877 (Prof. Mark Stoll, Fall 2022)
2021-2022 Archives Coordinator, Dwight Hall at Yale
2021-2022 Graduate Peer Fellow
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
2019-2020 Social Studies Teacher
Telesis Preparatory Academy, Lake Havasu City, AZ
2016-2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of American Studies
University of Alabama
Served as teaching assistant for:
AMS150: American Arts and Values (Prof. Lynn Adrian, Fall 2016)
AMS151: Introduction to American Studies (Prof. Edward Tang, Spring 2017)
AMS203: Southern Studies (Prof. Jon Payne, Fall 2017)
AMS205: Dirty Jobs (Prof. Michael Innis-Jimenez, Fall 2016)
AMS206: Introduction to Native American Studies (Prof. Mairin Odle, Fall 2017)
Research Assistant, Prof. Michael Innis-Jimenez, Spring 2018
PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES
“Religion in America’s National Parks,” Oxford Bibliographies in American History. Oxford University Press. (in progress)
“The Rockefellers, Religion, and America's National Parks,” Rockefeller Archive Center Reports. 2025. (forthcoming)
PUBLICATIONS - BOOK REVIEWS
Reviewed Josh McMullen, The Glacier Priest: Father Bernard Hubbard and America’s Last Frontier. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Fides Et Historia. (forthcoming)
Reviewed Robert B. Keiter, Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem. University of Chicago Press, 2025. H-Net, H-Environment. (forthcoming)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Keep Christ Green: A Christian Ministry in the National Parks and Environmental Values,"
American Society for Environmental History, Kansas City, Missouri
Panel: "Contesting Sacred Ground: The Crossroads of Christianity & Nature in the Postwar U.S." (panel organizer)
March 25-28, 2026 (Upcoming)
“The Spiritual Values of Tourism: Ecumenical Christianity, the National Park Service, and a Bicentennial Conference”
American Academy of Religion-Southwest, Irving, Texas
March 6-8, 2026 - upcoming
“The Gods of Big Bend National Park,”
Texas State History Association, Irving, Texas
March 4-7, 2026 – upcoming
“Building Nature’s Cathedral?: The National Park Service’s Evolving Relationship with Religious Freedom,”
2025 Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Conference, Texas Tech University
November 12, 2025
“The Church in Nature’s Cathedral: Catholic and Protestant Conflict Over the Yosemite Chapel,”
Eastern Sierra History Conference, Cerro Coso Community College, Bishop, California
October 31-November 2, 2025
“Vacationing with God: Religion and Tourism at the Yosemite Valley Chapel,”
Western History Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Panel: “Sites of Enchantment: Religion, Relation, and Place in the American West”
October 15-18, 2025
“The Sacred of Sin City: Secularism, the Sixties, and A Christian Ministry on the Las Vegas Strip,”
Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
October 3-5, 2025
“Stewardship Revisited: Christians and the Good Earth,”
The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Environment Conference
Southern New Hampshire University (online)
September 25-26, 2025
“From the Sierra Club to Earth First!: The Stone-Campbell Movement’s Most Famous Environmentalists, John Muir & David Foreman,”
Stone-Campbell Journal Conference, Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee
April 11-12, 2025
“Worship, Nature, and the Great Emancipator: Religion at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial,”
Indiana Association of Historians, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana
Panel: “Religion Reassessed: Christian Identity in Region, Nation, Empire”
April 5, 2025
Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee
GUEST LECTURES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“George Hartzog, Jr. and Religion in National Parks,” Clemson University Special Collections & Archives, Invited Zoom Presentation -- March 11, 2026 (upcoming)
“Establishment and Diversity,” for Mark Stoll’s American Religious History course (September 26, 2025)
“Religion and the Civil War,” for Mark Stoll’s American Religious History course (October 28, 2022)
PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECTS
“Yale University and the New Haven Community,” ArchGIS Story Map, April 2021, with Josh Panos, available: https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=1160737&p=8473219.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES
Judge, South Plains Regional History Day, March 2, 2024
Judge, Texas Tech 3-Minute Thesis Competition, October 6, 2023
AmeriCorps Volunteer, Essex Junction, Vermont, 2018-2019
President, Pi Sigma Alpha, Harding University Chapter, Fall 2015
HONORS & AWARDS - EXTERNAL
Rockefeller Archive Center Travel Stipend, 2025, $2000
Presbyterian Historical Society Research Fellowship, 2025, $2500
Clemson University Special Collections and Archives Travel Award, 2025, $1500
HONORS & AWARDS - INSTITUTIONAL
Drs. Otto Nelson & Allan Keuthe Graduate Scholarship, 2025, $2000
Texas Tech University Graduate Research Grant, 2025, $1500
Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantship, Texas Tech University, 2022-2026,
Gordon L. Corbett Scholarship Fund, Yale Divinity School, 2021-2022
William Sloane Coffin Scholarship Fund, Yale Divinity School, 2021-2022
Forrest Knapp Scholarship, Yale Divinity School, 2020-2021
Robert W. Greene Scholarship, Yale Divinity School, 2020-2021
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Environmental History
American Academy of Religion
Western History Association