Scott Billingsley

Scott Billingsley (Auburn History Ph.D., 2003), is an Assistant Professor of History and Program Director of Graduate Social Studies Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina.

At Auburn, he wrote his dissertation, "New Prophets for Emerging American Subcultures: The Rise of Women and African American Evangelists in the Independent Charismatic Movement, 1950-2000," under the direction of Professor David Edwin Harrell, Jr.  The book manuscript, tentatively titled "'It's a New Day': Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement," is currently under consideration for publication by the University of Alabama Press.  Building on Harrell's pioneering work All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America, this study chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America.  These ministers served as cultural mediators between the secular and religious worlds, taking the socially, politically, and theologically liberal ideologies of the Civil Rights and feminist movements and adapting them to fit the sensibilities of conservative evangelical audiences.

He received his M.A. in American History from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, in December 1996, writing his M.A. thesis, "The Newbern Trial: A Study of Restorationism and Primitivism in American Religion," under the direction of Professor David Rowe.

He received his B.A. in Social Studies Education from David Lipscomb University in May, 1991.

He is married to Kelly Billingsley, and they have a daughter, Afton.

Last updated October 3, 2005.
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