Luke Harlow

Luke Harlow is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, politics, and slavery in the nineteenth-century United States, particularly in the Civil War era and the American South.

• Ph.D., Rice University, 2009

Harlow’s work explores themes such as moral reform, Christian theology, and the origins of liberal Protestantism in Civil War-era America. He has authored the book Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 and co-edited Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present with Mark A. Noll. His publications span topics including the long-term impacts of proslavery religion, conservative evangelicalism, and the role of religion in histories of slavery.

He serves in editorial roles for the Journal of the Civil War Era and the Journal of Southern Religion. Harlow teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, American religion, the American South, and the American Dream. Additionally, he writes personally about punk rock and the American past.