Michael Pasquier
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Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies Professor of Religious Studies Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences 210A Coates Hall 225-578-2271 |
Professor Pasquier studies the history of religion in the United States with specialization in American Catholicism and religion in the U.S. South. His research publications include Father on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 (2010), Religion in America: The Basics (2016), and the edited volume, Gods of the Mississippi (2013). He co-produced the film Water Like Stone, a documentary about a Louisiana fishing village facing environmental and economic decay, and produce the podcast Coastal Voices, an audio documentary series that explores the relationship between people, land, and water in coastal Louisiana.
Dr. Pasquier's work on religion and culture in the Mississippi River Valley has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Whiting Foundation.
He has previously served as Director of the Religious Studies Program (2013-2019), Director of the Center for Collaborative Knowledge (2018-2021), the Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program (2018-2021), and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (2021-2022).
B.A. in Religious Studies and History, Louisiana State University (2002)
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Florida State University (2007)
REL 1000: Religions of the World
REL 2000: Introduction to the Study of Religion
REL 2033: American Religions
REL 3000: Christianity
REL 3010: Religion in Louisiana
REL 3102: American Catholic History
REL/HIST 4161: History of Religion in the United States
REL 4171: Religion in Southern Culture
HNRS 2021: Religion and the Cinematic Experience
HNRS 3031: Religion and Public Life in America
LIBA 7000: Liberal Arts Methods of Inquiry
LIBA 7900: Liberal Arts Themes and Commonalities
Recipient of Start-Up Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2019-2021)
Recipient of Public Engagement Fellowship, The Whiting Foundation (2017-2018)
Recipient of Emerging Scholar Rainmaker Award for Research and Creativity (2014)
Recipient of Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities (2013)
Recipient of Robert Udick Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2012)
Recipient of Art Works (Design) Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (2012-2013)
Fellow, Summer Institute on American Religion and the Spatial Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities (2012)
Recipient of Great Places Research Award, Environmental Design Research Association (2011)
Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (2010-12)
Recipient of Research Grant, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (2011)
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008-09)
Recipient of Dorothy Mohler Research Grant, Catholic University of America (2006)
Recipient of Filson Fellowship, Filson Historical Society (2006)
Recipient of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Research Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame (2006)
Phi Betta Kappa, Louisiana State University (2002)
Books
Religion in America: The Basics (New York: Routledge, 2016)
ed. Gods of the Mississippi, Religion in North America Series (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013)
Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States,1789-1870, Religion in America Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Film
(co-produced and co-written with Zack Godshall) Water Like Stone (2013)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
"Missionaries, Martyrdom, and Warfare in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1764," Catholic Historical Review 105 (2019): 304-26
"Flooded Catholicism: Disaster and Prayer in Coastal Louisiana," Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 48 (2019): 204-13
"Catholicism and Race," in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History, ed. Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 172-90
"The Invisibility of Voodoo, or, the End of Catholic Archives in America," American Catholic Studies 125 (2014), 12-15
"Creole Catholicism before Black Catholicism: Religion and Slavery in French Colonial Louisiana," Journal of Africana Religions 2 (2014): 271-79
"Religion and the American Landscape." Religion Compass 7 (2013): 137-48
(with Kristi Dykema Cheramie) "The Lost Graves of the Morganza Floodway," Places (2013)
"Though Their Skin Remains Brown, I Hope Their Souls Will Soon Be White': Slavery, French Missionaries, and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the American South," Church History 77 (2008): 337-70
"Medjugorje in the American South: Our Lady of Tickfaw and the Politics of Devotion," U.S. Catholic Historian 24 (2006): 125-48