Jonathan Riddle

Articles and Chapters

• “Physiology, Vitalism, and the Contest for Body and Soul in the Antebellum United States,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 78, no. 3 (2023): 227–248
• “Christianity and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States,” in Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health, ed. Philipp Hetmanczyk et al. (New York: Routledge, 2021), 509-514
• “Masters and Ministers: Baylor University Leaders during the American Civil War,” in Slavery, Civil War, and Freedom: Texas Baptists in the Civil War Era, ed. Nicholas T. Pruitt (LSU Press, forthcoming)
• “All Catholics Are Spiritualists: The Boundary Work of Mary Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 87, no. 2 (2018): 452–486

Other Publications

• Review of Douglas A. Foster, A Life of Alexander Campbell (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2020), in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 91, no. 3 (2022): 697-699
• Review of Philippa Koch, The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America (New York: New York University Press, 2021), in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 90, no. 3 (2021): 708-710
• “Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902),” in American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, ed. Gary Scott Smith, vol. 2, 3 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2021), 273–275
• “Cholera Outbreaks Revealed Power, Prejudice, and Compassion. So Does COVID-19,” Christianity Today, April 8, 2020
• Review of John Lardas Modern, Secularism in Antebellum America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), in Journal of Church and State 56, no. 1 (2014): 180–182
• Review of Paul Harvey, Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2012), in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 81, no. 4 (2012): 348–349

• “COVID-19 in Context: The Long History of Personal Responsibility,” 136th annual meeting of the American Historical Association | Philadelphia, PA, January 5–8, 2023
• “How Christians in the United States Confronted Past Epidemics,” Living and Learning in the Time of Covid-19, Wheaton College | Wheaton, IL, June 8, 2020
• “Holistic Care: How Abolitionist Doctors Confronted Racialized Medicine,” Lawndale Christian Health Center | Chicago, IL, March 6, 2020
• “‘A Good Investment’: Personal Health Amidst Economic Uncertainty,” 134th annual meeting of the American Historical Association | New York, NY, January 3–6, 2020
• “‘Underserved’ and ‘Overexposed’: The History of Race and Structural Determinants of Health in the United States,” Pre-Health Professions Club conference, entitled, “Just Health: Who Gets Health Care and Why,” Wheaton College | Wheaton, IL, April 9, 2019
• “The Science of Human Life: Vitalism, Materialism, and the Rise of Physiology in the Antebellum United States,” 92nd annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine | Columbus, OH, April 25–28, 2019
• “From Embodied Republicanism to Empowered Bodies: Physiology and Political Thought in the Antebellum North,” 132nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association | Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2018
• “Uniting Body and Soul: How Regimen Became Religion in the Antebellum Physiological Reform Movement,” 39th annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic | Philadelphia, PA, July 20–23, 2017
• “Reforming Body and Soul: Health and Religion in the Antebellum North, 1820–1860,” University of Oxford-University of Notre Dame History Workshop | Oxford, UK, March 1–5, 2016