Jeffrey Rosario

PhD Candidate in American History
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I am originally from Miami, Florida, where my mother settled after immigrating from the Dominican Republic. Before my PhD research at Cambridge, I completed a Masters in History of Christianity at Yale University. Prior to my studies at Yale I worked as a lecturer for about eight years at a non-profit organization where I taught theology and religious history for a continuing education program.

 

 

 

My current research focuses on religious dissent in America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I am interested in how biblical apocalypticism informed the anti-imperialism of Protestant radicals who protested domestic and foreign policies that undermined civil and religious liberty and propelled the United States to imperialistic actions abroad. This project will explore the intersections between apocalyptic belief, religion and politics, religious liberty, and American empire. I aim to shed light on the religious outsiders that are often overlooked in the standard narratives of American religious history.

“Apocalyptic Anti-Imperialism and the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902.” American Society of Church History, New York City, January 3-6, 2020.

“National Apostasy in Jesus’ Name: Biblical Prophecy and Dissent Against American Empire, 1898-1902.” Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States Annual Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, June 12-14, 2019. 

“Adventism’s Two-Horned Hog and the Dilemma of War-Time Patriotism.” Triennial Conference of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians, Southwestern Adventist University, May 16-18, 2019.

“Religious Outsiders and the Political Implications of Revelation’s Subversive Imagery.” Pacific Northwest Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Central Washington University, May 3-5, 2019.

“Negotiating Race, Missions, and Empire: The AME Church During the Philippine-American War.” Divinity Colloquium, Tenth Session, Yale University, CT April 2, 2018.

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jr759@cam.ac.uk
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Publications

"Protestant Anti-Imperialism and the Vindication of the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901," Diplomatic History. Oxford University Press (2021), dhab102, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhab102.

“The Historical Background of Sabbatarian Adventism.” The Oxford Handbook of Seventh-day Adventism. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Jones, Alonzo Trévier (1850–1923).” Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. June 1, 2020. https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=C9KZ.

“Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1898–1902).” Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. June 1, 2020. https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=EA7G.

“The Edwardsean Roots of Manifest Destiny.” Jonathan Edwards Studies vol. 7, no. 2 (2017)

 

General Publications:

“The mainstreaming of Christian Zionism could warp foreign policy,” Washington Post, June 30, 2020

“Staying home from church to protect public health is a Christian tradition,” Washington Post, April 12, 2020

“A little fire from the Senate chaplain might go a long way,” Washington Post, Feb. 12, 2020