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Rodney Hessinger serves as Professor of History and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at John Carroll University, where he specializes in the social and cultural dimensions of early America within the Department of History.
His research spans critical intersections of Native American history, evangelical religion, family and childhood dynamics, colonial Caribbean societies, and the history of sexuality. Current scholarship focuses on religious conflict in the early republic, particularly how churches weaponized sexual scandal against rivals during the Second Great Awakening as explored in his forthcoming Cornell University Press project Smitten: Sex and Sectarian Conflict in the Second Great Awakening.
Hessinger's publication Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn (2005) established foundational work on youth in middle-class America, reflecting his consistent examination of cultural tensions through marginalized perspectives. His oeuvre reveals a trajectory from 18th-19th century social structures toward contemporary understandings of morality and power in religious institutions.
