Dima Hurlbut
Boston University, Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Department Member
- History, African History, Nigeria, History of Christianity, West Africa, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), and 32 moreHistory of West Africa, Nigerian History, History of Religion, History of Missions, British Empire, History of the British Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism, Religious Conversion, African Studies, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Religion, Africa, African Diaspora Studies, Historiography, Religious Studies, Transnational History, Transnational and World History, African Traditional Religions, American Foreign Policy, History of American Foreign Relations, International History, Neoliberalism, Atlantic World, Social History, Cultural History, Urban History, Mormonism, Mormon History, Mormon studies, American Religious History, and World Historyedit
- I am currently a visiting researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University Schoo... moreI am currently a visiting researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology (2023-) and a research fellow at the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa (IRPIA) at Northern Illinois University (2024-). I was previously a Graduate Research Fellow in Mormon Studies at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah (2018-2019), and a visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria (2016).
I earned both my Ph.D. (2020) and M.A. (2017) in history from Boston University, where I was a Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow. I received my B.A. (2014) from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
My research focuses on religious encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly religious conversion and the expansion of American mission churches in the postcolonial period. My scholarship has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies (2018, 2019, 2023, 2024), the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal (2023, 2024), the Russian Academy of Science's Journal of the Institute for African Studies (2023), the Journal of Mormon History (2019), and Religions (2020), and received three awards from the Mormon History Association (2019, 2020, 2024) and an award from the John Whitmer Historical Association (2020). These articles have been taught in history and religion courses at institutions such as the University of Utah and Whitman College.
I am a lead book review editor for H-Africa (2019- ) and the former managing editor of the African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (2017-2020). I co-founded the Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History (2018- ) with Leslie Hadfield of Brigham Young University.edit