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Robert Naeher, Jonathan Edwards Fellow at Beinecke

This month the Jonathan Edwards Center is pleased to support Robert Naeher, the 2007 Jonathan Edwards Fellow at the Beinecke Library.

Naeher received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1999, and wrote a dissertation on puritan prayer as gendered voice under the supervision of Karen Ordahl Kupperman.  He has received fellowships from the NEH and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and has published an article on John Eliot's Praying Indians, "Dialogue in the Wilderness," in the New England Quarterly (September, 1989).  He currently chairs the History and Social Sciences Department at the Emma Willard School, in Troy, NY, and is at the Beinecke to continue working on the puritan practice and experience of prayer.  His project at the Beinecke is titled Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Self.