History of capitalism, transnational history, 20th century U.S.

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006

Office: 326 LeConte
Office Hours: By Appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2528

moreton@uga.edu

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Bethany Moreton (Ph.D., Yale 2006) is the author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, May 2009). She was named the 2009 Emerging Scholar by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and a 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

"Why Is There So Much Sex in Christian Conservatism and Why Do SO Few Historians Care Anything about It?," Journal of Southern History (August 2009)

"Make Payroll, Not War," in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, ed. Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer (Harvard University Press, 2007) [More Info]

"The Soul of Neoliberalism," Social Text (2006) [More Info]

"It Came From Bentonville: The Agrarian Origins of Wal-Mart Culture," in Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism, ed. (New Press, 2006)

Honors and Awards

Best Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts, Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2007)

Kochan-Sleigh Best Dissertation Award, Labor and Employment Relations Association (2007)

Herman E. Krooss Prize, Business History Conference, for best dissertation in business history (2007)

Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for poetic, literary, or religious scholarship (2007)

C. Vann Woodward Prize for Best Dissertation, Southern Historical Association (2007)

Courses Taught

HIST4035: Race, Gender, and Empire

HIST4080: Politics of Gender in United States History

MA Theses Supervised