Kate Carté

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin
B.A., Haverford College

Biography

Katherine Carté is a professor of history and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. She is the author, most recently, of Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in 2021, which won the Albert W. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History.  She is also the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), the editor of Revolutionary Turns: Religion & America’s Founding Era (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2026), and she has published articles in Church History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Early American Studies. She has received fellowships from the ACLS, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia.  She is currently studying the experiences of religious women in the American Revolution, particularly around Savannah, Georgia.

Selected Publications

• “Connecting Protestant in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire,” William & Mary Quarterly, January 2018, 75(1), 37-70.

• “Triangulating Religion and the American Revolution through Jedidiah Morse,” Common-place, 15(3), May 2015.

• Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, paper 2011).

• “The SPCK and the American Revolution: The Limits of International Protestantism,” Church History, March 2012, 8(1), 77-103.

• “Moravians in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World,” Journal of Moravian History, 12(1), Spring 2012, 1-19.

• “Religion and the Economy: New Methods for an Old Problem,” Early American Studies 8(3), Fall 2010, 482-514.

• “The Presence and Absence of Religion in National Unity,” in Frank Cogliano, ed., Revolution at 250, University of Virginia Press, 2026) pp. 163-173.

• “National Wars: Public Religion in the First Years of the Revolution,” selection from Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, in Nicholas Popper, The American Revolution: Essays on the Founding (University of North Carolina Press, 2026), pp. 74-85.

• “The American Revolution and Churches,” in Carine Lounissi, Éric Schnakenbourg, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds, Révolution américaine et naissance des États-Unis, 1763-1800 (Malakof, France: Armand Colin, 2026), 90-104.

Courses

• Religion in America
• Religion in US history to 1865
• Religion in US history since 1865
• Religion and the American Revolution
• Introduction to Digital Humanities