Award ACLS Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

National Book Critics Circle Nominee

Augustus Meyer Annual Award winner

Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History (1988)

Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities (Washington University in St. Louis)

Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada (2013-2014)

Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America (2009-2011)

Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion (2007-2009)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1991-1992)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (1987-1988)

John Hope Franklin Prize (American Studies Association | 2001)

AAR Award for Exellence in Historical Studies (2001)