Christopher D. Cantwell is the Assistant Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago where he works on public history and the digital humanities. His research interest American religious history, particular the devotional practices of evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants. He is currently completing a manuscript titled "The Bible Class Teacher: Piety and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalism," which use the life of an American Protestant laymen who simultaneously self-identified as a fundamentalist Christian and Socialist politician.
