Date: October 6, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Molly Worthen
Location: Reitz Union Auditorium
Molly Worthen's research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history. Her most recent book, Spellbound, is a history of charisma as both a religious and political concept over the past 400 years in America. Worthen teaches courses in North American religious and intellectual history, global Christianity and the history of politics. In 2017 she received the Manekin Family Award for Teaching Excellence in Honors Carolina. She writes regularly about religion, politics and higher education for the New York Times and has also contributed to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Slate, and other publications. She has created courses for Audible and the Teaching Company on the history of charismatic leadership as well as the history of global Christianity since the Reformation.
