TJ Tomlin

• B.A., History, Kansas State University
• M.A., Church History, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• Ph.D., History, University of Missouri

Professor of History. University of Northern Colorado (2021-present)

National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Richmond, Department of Religious Studies (spring 2017)

Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado (2014-2021)

Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado (2009-2013)

Early American cultural and religious history

-“Protestantisms in North America,” Bloomsbury Religion in North America: Christianity in North America, edited by Dyron B. Daughrity (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)
-“Lotteries and Overlapping Providences in Early America,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of
Interpretation, Summer 2021
-“Almanacs,” in The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, volume 5, U.S. to 1860, edited by Ron and
Mary Zboary (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
–A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
-“Astrology’s From Heaven, not from Hell”: The Religious Significance of Early American
Almanacs.” Early American Studies, Spring 2010
-“Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764)” in Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (New York: Continuum, 2013)

Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson Studies, Yearlong Fellow, 2026-2027

Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, 2014-2016

Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2010-2011

William Reese Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2010-2011

Provost’s Fund Fellowship, University of Northern Colorado, 2010-2011, 2015, 2016

Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical

Society of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009

Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty, University of Missouri, 2008-2009