BIOGRAPHY
University College Senior Lecturer, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Studies American religious communities, American religious history, landscape and material culture. Ph.D. (2010) University of Tennessee, Knoxville; M.A. (2001) Iliff School of Theology / University of Denver.
PUBLISHED WORK
American Religious History
Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019).
“Cities of Zion: Methodist Camp Meeting Associations and Vernacular Town Planning,” Journal of Planning History, 17: 1 (January 2018):42-66. -- Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1538513217710372
“Ocean and Grove: Holiness, Leisure, and Contested Landscapes at Ocean Grove, New Jersey,” American Nineteenth Century History, 18:2 (2017):107-129. -- LInk: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664658.2017.1324592
“As We Will Know Each Other in Heaven: The Place of the 1872 Knoxville National Camp Meeting in the Imagined Geography of the Wesleyan Holiness Movement.” Journal of Southern Religion 19 (February 2017): http://jsreligion.org/vol19/avery-quinn/
“In the Wild Dark Pines: Crisis, Legitimacy, and the Origins of the National Camp-Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness.” Methodist History 52:1 (2014): 43-57. -- Link: http://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/8539/mh2013-oct-avery-quinn.pdf?sequence=1
Material Culture and Landscapes
“‘The Greatest Agricultural Colony on Earth’: Landscape and Community Development of the Estelle Colony, Atlantic County, New Jersey, 1895-1910,” Pennsylvania History 8:4 (2018): 488-529. -- Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pennhistory.85.4.0488?seq=1
“At Play in the Gate of Heaven: Methodist Material Discourses of Leisure and the Picturesque at Round Lake, New York.” Material Culture 49:1 (2017):1-25. -- Link: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-4321148181/at-play-in-the-gate-of-heaven-methodist-material
TEACHING
Frequently-taught Courses & Syllabi
First Year Seminars -- Appalachian State University
August 2010 - Present
Sacred Spaces -- Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
Historical Landscapes -- Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
Contemporary American Religion -- Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
Other Courses -- Appalachian State University & Elsewhere
2004 - Present
Religion and Imaginary Worlds -- Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
Introduction to Sociology -- Roane State Community College -- Harriman, TN
American Religious History -- University of Tennessee -- Knoxville, TN
World Religions -- University of Tennessee -- Knoxville, TN
Religious Retreats in the Carolina High Country -- Watauga College - Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
The Arab Spring -- Watauga College - Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
Bodies, Places, Spaces, and Things -- Department of Interdisciplinary Studies - Appalachian State University -- Boone, NC
GET IN TOUCH
Contact Samuel Avery-Quinn, PhD regarding his published work, course offerings or any other inquires.
Boone, NC, USA