History Professor Amy Kittelstrom will be participating in a Fellowship at the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion, research and writing her own work-in-progress and participating in Center activates, including symposia, conferences and public lectures.
At Princeton, Kittelstrom will finish her first book, The Religion of Democracy: Liberals and Self-Culture in Evolutionary America, 1838-1912, which locates an origin of modern political liberalism in nineteenth-century religious liberalism, in which figures from William Ellery Channing through William James to Jane Addams used the concept of self-culture to redefine first religion and then the relationship of the self to society.