Biography

Dr. Lindman's primary research interests include women in early America, gender history, religious history, the history of the body, and the history of masculinity. She is co-editor of A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America(Cornell University Press, 2001) and the author of Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). She is the author of many book chapters and articles, some of which have appeared in prestigious journals including the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early America Republic, and the Journal of Social History. She received her B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. 

Courses taught: Dr. Lindman teaches courses in the areas of American colonial history, the American Revolution and early republic, the history of feminism and U.S. women's history.

A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice & Reform in Antebellum America

This important study of religion in antebellum America details the schisms that fractured and transformed Quaker religious practice and social commitments between 1800 and 1860. . . . [It] lends new subtlety to the disagreements bout religious doctrine that led a once-unified church to splinter after the 1820s. . . . Perhaps even more valuable, though, are the deep insights provided into the moral texture of lived religion among Quakers during these years.

-The Journal of American History

 "A well assembled collection of fascinating essays, A Centre of Wonders opens many interpretive possibilities. If we follow its example, the early American body will assume its rightful complex and complicating role in historical narratives." 
-William and Mary Quarterly

"This anthology comprises the research of outstanding, mostly young scholars working with skill and perspicuity. If those are foretastes of books to come, we may expect a rich and illuminating outcome."
-Journal of American History

"An important history of Baptists in early North America that moves deftly between the Church meeting house and its larger social and cultural contexts."
-Church History

"Lindman's book adds much to our understanding of a lesser-known but significant portion of the early American religious landscape. Bodies of Belief enriches our view of the growth of the Baptist faith, its regional variations, and the experience of various believers within it."
-Journal of American History

"Lindman helps correct an overwhelmingly doctrinal and textual framework in the historiography (much of which has been denominational) by stressing the importance of the body, ritual, and gender." 
-Journal of the Early Republic

Recent Articles

Janet Moore Lindman, “’And well improved each moment as it flies’: Spiritual Utility and Quaker Art,” EAS Miscellany, December 15, 2024. Read More

"A VERY CURIOUS RELIGIOUS GAME”: SPIRITUAL MAPS AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN EARLY AMERICA"

"'A Very Curious Religious Game': Spiritual Maps and Material culture in Early America", Commonplace: The Journal of Early America Life (2022).  

"'The pleasures of traveling in Liberty Plains':  Practical Piety and Material Culture in the Transatlantic Quaker Community", Quaker Studies (2022).  

“Introduction” and Guest Editor, “Women’s and Gender History in Pennsylvania", special issue in honor of the 100^th anniversary of the women’s suffrage amendment, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 87, #3 (Summer 2020):449-453.

"Introduction” and Guest Editor, “Women’s and Gender History in Pennsylvania", special issue in honor of the  100^th anniversary of the women’s suffrage amendment, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 87 #4 (Autumn 2020):587-590.

“’Deluded Women’ and ‘Violent Men’: Gender, Language and the Hicksite Schism", Quaker History Vol. 109, #1 (Spring 2020). Winner of the Kenneth Carroll Prize for the best article in Quaker History published between spring 2019 and fall 2021.

“’To have a gradual weaning & be ready and willing to resign all’: Maternity, Piety and Pain among Quaker Women of the Early Mid-Atlantic", Early American Studies vol. 17, #4 (special issue: Women and Religion in the Early Americas) (fall 2019):498-518.