About Jay Case
Jay Case is a professor of history at Malone. He has taught a range of history classes at Malone, including several in the general education program and the honors program. Case has also co-led seven service-learning trips with Malone students to Jamaica and to Kenya. His main areas of scholarly interest are in American religious, particularly evangelicalism and the missionary movement. In 2012, he published a book titled "An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920" from Oxford University Press. Case is currently working on a religious biography of Bob Dylan.
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Notre Dame
- M.A., The University of Notre Dame
- B.A., Taylor University
AWARDS
- 2012 Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship/Creative Expression; 2004 Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching
Classes I Teach
- College Experience
- World History: 1500 to Present
- American History: Colonial Era to the Civil War
- American History: Gilded Age to the Present
- Religion in America
- History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- History of Africa
- History of Latin America
- History of Missions and World Christianity
- Faith in the World Seminar: Film and the American Dream History of World Religions
- Honors Seminar: Boredom
- History Senior Seminar
Signature Experiences
- 1999-present, Professor of History, Malone University
- 1997, Instructor, The University of Notre Dame
- 1996, Adjunct Professor of History, Taylor University
- 1994-1995, Social Studies Teacher, Rift Valley Academy, Kijabe, Kenya
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
“Nineteenth-Century Missionaries and Cultural Humility,” in David Bebbington, ed., International Evangelicalism, Baylor University Press, forthcoming.
“In Praise of Limitations,” in Eric Miller and Ron Morgan, eds, Brazilian Evangelicalism and the Hope of Renewal: An Inside and Outside Look. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
“Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly,” Current, April 26, 2022.
“Coca-Cola and Authenticity: What’s Not to Like?” Current, Feb. 14, 2022.
“Oh, freedom: The Bible in Black Christian Movements for Liberation,” Christian History Magazine, volume 138.
“What the Waorani Mission Wrought.” Christianity Today. March, 2019.