Religion of Revolution: Presented by Kyle Roberts

Kyle Roberts is the Executive Directors of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston Massachusetts.  Dr. Roberts previously served as Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society, where he oversaw three research centers and scholarly and educational programming for the nation’s oldest learned society. Before that, he was Associate Professor of Public History and New Media and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.

An accomplished public historian and digital humanist, Roberts holds a B.A. in American Studies from Williams College and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of the award-winning Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (Chicago, 2016), which uncovers the role played by religion in the development of the modernizing American city, as well as several anthologies and numerous articles. Roberts has collaborated on the creation of multiple digital humanities projects, including Dissenting Academies Online: Virtual Library System, the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project, and, most recently, The Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding. In addition to being the consultant for numerous digital and public history projects, he sits on the Executive Committees of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Urban History Association. 

Roberts’s wealth of knowledge and experience will give new momentum and meaning to the CLA’s mission of fostering a deeper understanding of the spiritual, intellectual, cultural, and civic dimensions of the Congregational story and its ongoing relevance to contemporary society by collecting, preserving, and sharing materials and by actively engaging with faith communities, students, scholars, and the general public. 

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Cost: Free

Host or Publisher First Congregational Church of Stonington