Gabriel Raeburn is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies and History, working at the intersection of religion and politics, and the histories of race, inequality and evangelicalism in the United States throughout the twentieth century. His dissertation challenges prevailing narratives on the rise of the Religious Right, by focusing on Pentecostals and charismatics, predominantly located in Oklahoma and the South-West. Throughout the postwar period, these religious actors built, developed and spread the Prosperity Gospel, transforming American religion and politics in the process. In contrast to prevailing studies, his research demonstrates that conceptions of race and desegregation battles were critical to the development of the prosperity movement.
Gabriel is also working on a side project on radical historians in the United States in the 1970s, particularly Eugene D. Genovese.
Committee: Anthea Butler (advisor), Sarah Barringer Gordon, Brent Cebul, Kevin M. Kruse (Princeton)
M.A., Religious Studies and History, University of Pennsylvania (2018)
M.St., U.S. History, University of Oxford (2015)
B.A. with honors, American Studies and Politics, University of Sussex (2014)
American Religious History
Twentieth Century U.S. History
History of Conservatism
Wealth, Race and Inequality
Teaching Assistant:
Rels 137: Religion and the Global Future (Spring 2019)
Hist 001: Deciphering America (Spring 2018)
Hist 170: History of the American South (Fall 2017)
Rels 112: Religion from the Civil Right Movement to Black Lives Matter (Fall 2016)
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians