Jacob Hiserman, PhD

Roman Catholic | @UAHistoryDept Ph.D. | @BaylorHistory M.A. | Research in 19th-century South, American religion, liturgy, higher ed.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Was off the former bird app for a short family vacation and a recent musing of mine at Arena @Current_Pub1 went up.

[Nadya Williams @NadyaWilliams81]

I love parenting essays by fellow-moms. But I also really love parenting essays by thoughtful dads. Grateful for @jacob_hiserman's lovely post today at the Arena @Current_Pub1: https://t.co/xOZYTFCWpW

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Perhaps Hamlet is the best Shakespeare play for March Madness. It is the time when we are found either “essentially in…madness” or “mad in craft” about our brackets (Act III, Scene IV).

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Has a great time presenting on Southern intellectual history with @d_roach25 and @jriliff at the recent @ciceroniansoc conference!

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Elliott Drago at the @JackMillerCtr recently interviewed me about my research and writing. You can read it here: https://t.co/NzJ9SxBlJ6

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@NadyaWilliams81 @BrazosPress @KatelynBeaty Congratulations!

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@DanielGullotta My eldest son got that book for his first birthday. The best thing about that book is family, friends, and myself reading it to my sons and providing political commentary on each president.😂

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@DanielGullotta Add "Nathaniel" between "For" and "Taylor" and it's golden.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@DanielGullotta If I recall correctly, Gods and Generals and Gettsyburg both have scenes with chaplains and religion.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Putting together my diss biblio and used Zotero. My fifth-grade teacher's mantra "computers are dumb machines; they do what you tell them to do" rings true *again.* I told Zotero lots of things I didn't mean to😂

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@IVMiles I wonder if this is partially due to disproportionate teaching and writing on Edward Bellamy's *Looking Backward* (1888) in the humanities.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

@IVMiles Otey is a fascinating figure. I'm curious to hear more about your interest in him. This address (as you probably know) came right in between his role in laying the foundation for Sewanee (1857-8) and placing the cornerstone for that university (in October 1860).

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Adding Wilfred McClay's *The Masterless* and his edited collection *Figures in the Carpet* for more assists on ideas of self, moral philosophy, and chapel liturgy in the late 19th century.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

#amwriting - final chapter draft of the diss. "Liturgy and Reverence" by David W. Fagerberg and "Founding Fathers, Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast USA" by Robert Penn Warren with the assists.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Part of a haul from a local estate sale on Saturday. Can't really have enough Eliot and slowly finding the same with R.P. Warren.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

A short piece on my dissertation. It was a pleasure to write for @Current_Pub1. Thanks to @NadyaWilliams81 for the gracious invite.

[Nadya Williams @NadyaWilliams81]

Today at the Arena @Current_Pub1, we're excited to welcome @jacob_hiserman, who tells about his research on southern chapel worship (of interest to @faithandhistory): https://t.co/gdb7exmZmo

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

The article was delightful and the "Candyland is stupid" line reminded me of a great thread that @JDenHartog1776 did a while ago about alt board games for kids besides Candyland.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

"But it is fun, because the joy of gaming first involves accepting arbitrary rules just to feel the sensation of having embraced them." <-board gaming as the social contract?
https://t.co/gEKr8soRKv

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

There's an argument for board games as auxiliary to or productive of human good(s) that should be made. Also, thinking about the article in light of *Enchantments of Mammon*: how Catan (and Monopoly) reinforces capitalist acquisitiveness in human imaginations.

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Carey's comment on an ahistorical Neo-scholasticism vs ontologism and what I interpret as an implicit framework of Augustine's two loves and two cities in McCarraher's *Enchantments of Mammon* (3/3)

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Starting to wonder if Augustine of Hippo and his thought has been seen as more historicist-friendly for intellectuals during and after the 19th century than Aristotle (& Aquinas following him) or if it is working within an Augustinian tradition. (1/3)

[Jacob Hiserman, PhD @jacob_hiserman]

Here, I'm thinking of John Milbank in *Theology and Social Theory*; Patrick Carey's on O. Brownson's desire to respond to post-Kantian idealism with ontologism (rooted, in part, in Augustinian illuminationism) in "Ontologism in American Catholic Thought, 1840-1900" (2/3)