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  • Lauren Turek, Ph.D.

    • Associate Professor , History
  • Ewing Halsell Center
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    210-999-7625
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    • History
    • Museum Studies
    • International Studies
    • International Studies
    • Mellon Initiative Program
  • Lauren Turek earned her doctorate in history from the University of Virginia in 2015, and holds a degree in museum studies from New York University as well as a degree in history from Vassar College. A specialist in U.S. diplomatic history and American religious history, Turek’s first book, To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence of Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations, examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism. She is currently at work on a second book project, which will explore congressional debates over U.S. foreign aid in the twentieth century. She has received grants to fund her international research from the American Historical Association and the Society for Historians of American foreign relations, among others. In addition, Turek has a background in public history and has developed exhibitions at a number of museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions. She is the director of the museum studies minor at Trinity. 

    • Ph.D., University of Virginia
    • MA, University of Virginia
    • MA, New York University
    • BA, Vassar College
    • To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). 
    • “Ambassadors for the Kingdom of God or for America? Christian Nationalism, the Christian Right, and the Contra War,” Religions 7, no. 12 (December 2016): 151 (1-16).
    • "Religious History Objects in Museums,” in Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate, eds. Religion in Museums: Today and Tomorrow (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)
    • “To Support a ‘Brother in Christ’: Evangelical Groups and U.S.-Guatemalan Relations during the Ríos Montt Regime,” Diplomatic History 39, no. 4 (September 2015): 689-719.
    • “Religious Rhetoric and the Evolution of George W. Bush’s Political Philosophy,” Journal of American Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2014): 975-998.
    • Twentieth century U.S. foreign relations and political history
    • American religious history
    • Modern United States History
    • Diplomatic History
    • Public History

    Grants:

    • The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, American Historical Association, 2012
    • Gelfand-Rappaport Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2012
       

    Awards:

    • Hugh Davis Graham Award, Institute for Political History, 2016
    • Trinity Tomorrow Award, Trinity University, 2020
    • Early Career Faculty Award for Distinguished Research & Teaching, Trinity University, 2021
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