Jamie L. Brummitt is an Associate Professor of American religious history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brummitt studies the visual and material cultures of nineteenth-century American Protestantism, especially Protestant relics and Bibles in the Civil War. She earned her PhD in American Religion from Duke University, where she studied with David Morgan, Grant Wacker, Lauren F. Winner, Annabel Wharton, and Kate Bowler. She also holds graduate minors in American Islam, and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. Brummitt is the author of Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2025; 30% off discount code AAFLYG6 at OUP’s site) and numerous articles on the material study of American Protestantism. She has been a research fellow at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon; The Library Company of Philadelphia; The Filson Historical Society; Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; and The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (which included the Vermont Historical Society; New Hampshire Historical Society; Historic Deerfield; and Maine Historical Society).
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