Gale Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 349687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gale Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gale |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exchange on the History of American Liberal Protestantism
This exchange began in Chicago as a roundtable at the American Society for Church History’s annual conference in January 2026. It brought together scholars whose work has pushed the study of American liberal Protestantism in pathbreaking directions. In Chicago, we discussed how we came to study liberal Protestantism, how we defined the boundaries of this community, how we understood its place in American history and the history of liberalism, and…
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
Contentious Liberties
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
Reconstructing a Different South
After British emancipation, a group of American abolitionists initiated a Christian mission to emancipated people in Jamaica, later to be adopted by the American Missionary Association (AMA). Using books and letters written by Americans in Jamaica, this article traces the evolution of evangelical abolitionists' views of emancipation between the 1830s and the 1850s. I argue that the Jamaica Mission taught its parent organisation, the AMA, to value…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
Reconstructing a Different South
After British emancipation, a group of American abolitionists initiated a Christian mission to emancipated people in Jamaica, later to be adopted by the American Missionary Association (AMA). Using books and letters written by Americans in Jamaica, this article traces the evolution of evangelical abolitionists' views of emancipation between the 1830s and the 1850s. I argue that the Jamaica Mission taught its parent organisation, the AMA, to value…
Contentious Liberties
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten
Exchange on the History of American Liberal Protestantism
This exchange began in Chicago as a roundtable at the American Society for Church History’s annual conference in January 2026. It brought together scholars whose work has pushed the study of American liberal Protestantism in pathbreaking directions. In Chicago, we discussed how we came to study liberal Protestantism, how we defined the boundaries of this community, how we understood its place in American history and the history of liberalism, and…
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Emancipation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)