Book Event: Gathered Into a Church with Lori Rogers-Stokes
October 23 at 9amPT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm BST
Join NACBS to celebrate Lori Rogers-Stokes’ recent publication Gathered into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England. Kyle Roberts will join Lori Rogers-Stokes in discussion.
More info and RSVP at https://www.nacbs.org/event-details/gathered-into-a-church-with-lori-rogers-stokes
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Lori Rogers-Stokes is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project from the Congregational Library and Archives. She is the author of Gathered into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England just out from the University of Massachusetts Press, and Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638–49: Heroic Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Lori studies the history of Woodland New England, where Indigenous people and English colonizers took actions that continue to shape our lives today.
Dr. Kyle Roberts was appointed the Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives in 2022. He received his BA in American Studies from Williams College and his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to the CLA, he was Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society and Associate Professor of Public History and New Media and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.
A scholar of Atlantic World religion, print, and library history, he is the author of Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (Chicago, 2016), the co-editor, with Stephen Schloesser, of Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience 1814-2014 (Brill, 2017) and, with Mark Towsey, of Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (Brill, 2017).
Kyle is an accomplished public historian and digital humanist whose collaborative projects include the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project, the Maryland Loyalism Project, and Dissenting Academies Online: Virtual Library System. In addition to being the consultant for numerous digital and public history projects, he has sat on the executive committees of the American Catholic Historical Association, the New England Historical Association, and the Urban History Association. He is on the editorial and advisory boards for American Catholic Studies, Early American Studies, and portal.