Myron C. Noonkester
Co-Director
Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761-1834)
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Myron C. Noonkester Co-Director Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761-1834)
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ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Chicago (British History)
Master of Arts The University of Chicago (British History)
Bachelor of Arts Duke University (History)
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
2017
"Missionaries Ministering to Indians in Mississippi" and "William Carey University" in The Mississippi Encyclopedia, ed. Ted Ownby and Charles Reagan Wilson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,).
2015
"The Integration of Carey College," (Presentation for Black History Month Celebration, Winters School of Music, William Carey University, February 5).
2013
"The Last Shoe to Drop: Educational Foundations of William Carey (1761-1834) and William Thames (1866-1942)," (Humanities Month Lecture for Mississippi Humanities Council, October 30).
"Carey's Bengalee Grammar," (Comments, Worldwide Carey Day, William Carey University, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, August 16).
"U. S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign," (Lecture, Fourth Grade Class, Sacred Heart Catholic School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, March 7).
"The Civil Rights Movement," (Lecture, Fourth Grade Class, Sacred Heart Catholic School, March 7).
2012
"Sheriffs in Early Colonial Virginia," (Lecture, Jamestowne Society, Jackson, Mississippi, November 3, 2012).
"William Carey and Creative Tension," (Lecture, Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club, August 23, 2012).
"How the War of 1812 Made Us America," (Lecture, Hattiesburg Lions Club, March 28, 2012).
“British Problem: The King James Bible as Governing Performance“ (Lecture, Manifold Greatness Exhibit, King James Bible 400th Anniversary, William Carey University, January 22, 2012).
2011
"Carey's Influences, Circumstances Deserve Consideration: An Essay." The Cobbler 56: 3. October 26, 2011, pp. 3 and 8.
"Dr. Carey's India," (Lecture, Oak Grove Exchange Club, July 6, 2011).
"Dr. Carey's India," (Lecture, Hattiesburg Exchange Club, May 5, 2011).
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr. and Jonathan Brooke] "Report from Serampore College, Serampore India," (Chapel Service, William Carey University, April 18, 2011).
"William Carey's Five-fold Dream," (Chapel Service, Serampore College, Srirampur, India, March 9, 2011).
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr., and Jonathan Brooke] "William Carey University, the Carey Center, and Prospects for Cooperation with Serampore College," (Conference and Seminar Sponsored by National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) and Serampore College, March 5, 2011).
"Carey the Cobbler" and "Carey the Scientist" in Carey Magazine (Spring, 2011).
"Review of Geoffrey Smith, Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640-1660," Choice (forthcoming).
"Substitutionary Carey," (Luncheon Talk, Holy Week, April 21, 2011, University Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, MS)
2010
"Coinage," The Thirties in America (Salem Press, forthcoming).
"Coinage," The Forties in America (Salem Press, forthcoming).
"Why the British Left Mississippi," (Lecture, Hattiesburg Lions Club, January 27, 2010|).
2009
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D. D. (1761-1834)," (lecture, Beta Psi Chapter, Beta Phi Mu, Mississippi Library Association Annual Meeting, University of Southern Mississippi, October 22, 2009).
"The Natchez Trace," (Mini-lecture, Eudora Welty Centennial Celebration, William Carey University, October 20-21, 2009).
"Carey Center from the Beginning," (Lecture, Sunrise Rotary Club, Hattiesburg, MS, August 19, 2009).
"Mississippi: Middle Ground in 1809," (Lecture, Amite County Bicentennial Celebration, May 1, 2009).
"Jonathan Strong" in Heritage of Freedom: Free Blacks in the Atlantic World, 1492-1900 (forthcoming, Facts on File).
2008
"Chapter 6. Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England," in Joseph P. Ward, ed., Violence, Politics and Gender in Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 147-171.
"Review of George Yerby, People and Parliament: Representative Rights and the English Revolution," Choice (forthcoming).
"Being William Carey." (Lecture, Hancock County Historical Society, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, March 20, 2008).
2007
"Challenges: Carey Center Update," (Lecture, Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club, November 8, 2007).
"Review of English Radicalism, 1550-1850, ed. Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein," Choice (forthcoming).
"Middle Ground: Mississippi's Identity Identified," (Lecture, Laurel Public Library, Laurel, MS, April 17, 2007).
"Why the British Left Mississippi," (Lecture, Amite County Historical Society, Liberty, MS, March 3, 2007, referenced in Local History, 4: 2, Summer, 2007, p. 3 ).
"Christmas Revived, 1647," History Magazine 8 (December/January, 2007): 54.
"Review of John Spurr, The Post-Reformation: Religion, Politics, and Society in Britain, 1603-1714." Choice (July, 2007): 1975.
2006
"World War I and Globalization: The Men Who Sold the World" (Institute for Lawrence County Schools as part of Teaching American History Grant, October 21, 2006, Lawrence County High School, Monticello, MS).
"Colonial America in Revolution: An Atlantic Approach," (Institute for Lawrence County Schools as part of Teaching American History Grant, June 29-30, 2006, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Simpson County, MS).
"Depression and New Deal: How to Help Your Students Deal with the Disease and the Remedy," (Institute for Lawrence County Schools as part of Teaching American History Grant, June 27-28, 2006, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Simpson County, MS).
"Review of Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth Century England." Choice (November, 2006).
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "William Carey: Man, College, Museum," (Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club, March 9, 2006).
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "Beyond Expectation. William Carey Revealed..." (Premier Exhibition, Donnell Hall, Carey Center Museum and Research Collection, Hattiesburg, MS, May 3-December 31, 2006).
2005
"William Carey: Biography, Institutional Presence and Bible Translation," (Trinity Episcopal Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, October 9, 2005).
"Dickens's Bleak House," The Explicator 64, no. 1 (2005); 35-38.
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "Carey Center Update," (Mississippi Woman's College Reunion, William Carey College, July 1, 2005).
[with Dan Parkman Morgan] "Fielding Bradford Morgan, Jr., 1846-1929," (Leonard Fielding Morgan Family Reunion, McComb, Mississippi, June 11, 2005).
"Imagining Civil War Mississippi," (Institute for Lawrence County Schools as part of Teaching American History Grant, May 31- June 2, 2005, Monticello, MS).
"Allan I. MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660," Choice (forthcoming).
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "Dr. Carey's College," (Bay Springs Rotary Club, March 14, 2005).
"Jon Stobart, The First Industrial Region: North-west England c. 1700-1760," Choice 42 (2005): 921.
2004
[with J. Mark Nicovich] "The Charge of the Light Brigade," (150th anniversary celebration of publication of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," William Carey College, December 9, 2004).
"1599," History Magazine 6 (October/November, 2004): 54.
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "Dr. Carey's College," (William Carey College Jubilee, August 22, 2004).
"Pauline Croft, King James," Choice 41 (2004).
"Reid Barbour, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England," Choice 41 (2004): 1539.
[with Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.] "The Chaplains’ Plot: Charter Renewal in 1813 and the Reformation of British India" (paper delivered at Southern Conference on British Studies, Memphis, TN, November 4, 2004).
2003
"Ireland IV: The Pale," "Ireland V: Tudor Plantations," and "Toleration and Comprehension" in Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades, 2 vols. (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003) 1: 699-702; 2: 1270-1271.
"Distress Inviolate and the Inexorable Sheriff: Procedural Inflection of Violence in Early Modern England," (delivered at a symposium on "Violence, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe," University of Mississippi, March 27, 2003).
"Eileen Groth Lyon, Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism," Church History 72: 3 (2003): 674-675.
"Patrick Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764," The History Teacher 36: 2 (2003): 264-265.
"Mark Stephen Jendrysik, Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and his Contemporaries," Choice 40 (2003): 1031.
2002
"Trollope's Doctor Thorne," The Explicator 61: 1 (2002): 25-27.
"The Other Name on Your Diploma" (Commencement Address, William Carey College, Jody and Nancy Fail School of Nursing, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2, 2002).
"Who Was William Carey?" (Magnolia Literary Club, February 11, 2002).
"David Womersley, Gibbon and the "Watchmen of the Holy City": The Historian and his Reputation," Choice (2002).
"Christopher Durston, Cromwell's Major-Generals," Choice 39 (2002): 1033.
2001
"Dunbar (1650)," and "Marston Moor (1644)," in Magill's Guide to Military History, ed. John Powell (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2001), pp. 448-449; 969-970.
"Who Was William Carey? Encounters in Britain and Bengal Revisited," (R. Glen Eaves Lecture in European and English History, Mississippi College, November 5, 2001).
"Carey's Ark: Charting Sea-Lanes from Enlightenment to Evangelicalism," (Carey Lecture, William Carey College, August 28, 2001).
"Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England ," Choice (2001).
"Jonathan Scott, England's Troubles," Choice 38 (2001): 1523.
2000
"Mississippi as ‘Middle Ground,’" (lecture to Columbia Rotary Club, February 1, 2000; Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club, August 17, 2000).
"Leslie Barnard, Thomas Secker: An Eighteenth Century Primate," Church History 69 (2000): 204-206.
"Stephen Coote, Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II," Choice 37 (2000): 989.
"Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770," Choice 37 (2000): .
"Colin Kidd, British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800," H-Albion (April, 2000).
"Mike Krzyzewski with Donald T. Phillips, Foreword by Grant Hill, Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life, The Reviewer, 1: 48, July 2, 2000.
"Fred Kaplan, Gore Vidal: A Biography," The Reviewer, 1: 49, July 9, 2000.
"Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Values of the Worst Family," The Reviewer, 2: 08, October 1, 2000.
1999
"Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829-1902)," in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, 2 vols., ed. Kelly Boyd (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 1: 436-437.
"J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Volume One, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon; Volume Two, Narratives of Civil Government," The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 25, 1999, pp. 317-318.
"Liberalism in Imperialism: S. R. Gardiner Confronts English Hegemony in Ireland," (Southern Conference on British Studies, Fort Worth, Texas, November 5, 1999).
"Better Living Through Science: A Historian’s Approach," (William Carey College Collegium, November 17, 1999).
"Judith Jago, ed., Aspects of the Georgian Church: Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776," Church History 68, no. 1 (1999): 191.
"Melinda Zook, Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England," Choice 37, no. 2 (1999): 1033.
"Paul Halliday, Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England’s Towns, 1650-1730," Choice 36 (1999): 1121.
1998
"Cam, Helen Maud (1885-1968)," "Creighton, Mandell (1843-1901)," "Freeman, Edward Augustus (1823-92)," "Froude, James Anthony (1818-94)," "Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)," "Round, John Horace (1854-1928)," in A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D. R. Woolf (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 134, 209, 328, 338, 366-367, 790.
"Marston's The Malcontent," The Explicator 56 (1998): 59-62.
"Informing Offices: Documents, Texts and Performances in Early-Modern England," (Midwest Conference on British Studies, Akron, Ohio, October 31, 1998).
"Girl Power and Enlightenment: Edward Gibbon’s Declining Women," (lecture for Women’s History Month, William Carey College, March 31, 1998).
"Adriana McCrea, Constant Minds: Political Virtue and the Lipsian Paradigm in England, 1584-1650," Choice 35 ( 1998): 971.
"Julia Merritt, ed., The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641," Seventeenth Century News 56, nos. 3 and 4 (1998): 110-111.
1997
"The Third British Empire: Transplanting English Shire Administration to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and America," Journal of British Studies 36 (1997): 251-284.
"David Womersley, ed., Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays," The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (forthcoming).
"Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinalt, eds., Edward Gibbon and Empire," The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (forthcoming).
"David Dean, Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England: The Parliament of England, 1584-1601," Choice (1997).
"Steven C. A. Pincus, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668," Choice 34 (1997): 858.
1996
"Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)," "Eliot, Sir John (1592-1632)," "Exchequer," "Gentry Controversy," "Hale Commission," "Monopolies," "Sheriffs," "Stop of the Exchequer (1672)" in Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689 ed. Ronald H. Fritze and W. B. Robison (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 109-110, 176-177, 183-185, 205-207, 220-221, 339-340, 492-493, 505-506.
"Alastair MacLachlan, The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth Century History," Choice 34 (1996): 517-518.
"Richard Adair, Courtship, Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England," Choice 34 (1996): 515.
"R. B. Outhwaite, Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850," Choice 33 (1996): 1197.
"Michael Bush, The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536" Choice 34 (1996): 184.
1995
"Memoranda, Memories and Gibbon's Memoirs," English Language Notes 32, no. 4 (1995): 65-70.
"What the Wide Receiver Coach Forgot to Teach Me about World History," (lecture delivered at Parents' Day, William Carey College, October 7).
"Timothy Venning, Cromwellian Foreign Policy," Choice 33 (1995): 672.
"Daniel Statt, Foreigners and Englishmen: The Controversy over Immigration and Population, 1660-1760," Choice 33 (1995): 351.
"John A. Butler, A Biography of Richard Cromwell, 1626-1712, The Second Protector," Choice 32 (1995): 1651.
"Maija Jansson, Nikolai Rogozhin, eds., Paul Bushkovitz, trans., England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614," Choice 32 (1995): 1360.
"Michael Zell, Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century," Choice 32 (1995): 1193.
1994
"Thomas Arnold and Keble's Christian Year," Notes and Queries 239 (1994): 348.
"Perambulating the Empire: The Transplantation of the English Shrievalty," (Western Conference on British Studies, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 29, 1994).
"Marie M. Roberts and Roy Porter, Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century," The History Teacher 27 (1994): 508-509.
"J. A. I. Champion, The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and Its Enemies, 1660-1730," The Historian 56:2 (1994): 366-367.
"J. Michael Hill, Fire and Sword: Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mor, 1538-1590," Choice 31, no. 8 (1994): 1487.
1993
"‘God for Its Author’: John Locke as a Possible Source for the New Hampshire Confession," New England Quarterly 66 (1993): 448-450.
"S. R. Gardiner and the Tudor Constitution," (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, December 9, 1993).
"Another Dead White Male? Edward Gibbon on Race," (Southwestern Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 1993).
"The Cambridge Cultural History: Sixteenth Century Britain, ed. Boris Ford," The Sixteenth Century Journal 24:3 (1993): 752-753.
"Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651," Choice 31, no. 2 (October, 1993): 345.
"David Rollison, The Local Origins of Modern Society, Gloucestershire, 1500-1800," Choice 31, no. 1 (September, 1993): 196.
1992
"Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Decline of the Sheriff," The Sixteenth Century Journal 23:4 (1992): 677-698.
"Mr. Gibbon, Revd. Fuller and the Apocalypse," Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 486-489.
"What Gardiner's History Was," (Southern Conference on British Studies in Atlanta, Georgia, November 5, 1992).
1991
"Gibbon in India," Notes and Queries 236 (1991): 192.
"Charles I and Shrieval Selection, 1625-6," Historical Research 64 (1991): 305-311.
1990
"Galsworthy on Adaptation," Notes and Queries 235 (1990): 434.
"Gibbon and the Clergy: Private Virtues, Public Vices," Harvard Theological Review 83:4 (1990): 399-414.
1989
"An Unpublished Letter of J. H. Newman," Notes and Queries 234 (1989): 188.
"Appreciating History," (workshop, Lillie Burney School, September, 1989).
1988
"Clerical Criticism and Gibbon's Decline and Fall," (William Carey College Faculty Studies Series, September 22, 1988).
1987
"William McNeill, Global Historian," (William H. McNeill, Honorary Degree Convocation, William Carey College, May 7, 1987).
"Living History," (Lecture, Honors Day, Lillie Burney School, May).
"Comment: the Liberal Arts," (response to address by Arthur Walker, William Carey College, August).
1984
"Primary Sources in the Classroom," (Workshop, Old Capitol Building, Mississippi Department of Education, Jackson, MS, October 26, 1984; cited in The Journal Of Mississippi History, 47 (1985): 210).
"Goldfish," (Commencement address, William Carey College, August).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructional at William Carey University
J. Ralph Noonkester Professor of History, 1999-
Professor of History, 1996-1999
Associate Professor of History, 1988-1996
Assistant Professor of History, 1983-1988
Administrative at William Carey University
Co-Director, Center for Study of Life and Work of William Carey, 2000-present.
Dean, Arts, Humanities and Sciences, 2001-present.
Interim Dean of Arts, Humanities and Sciences, 2000-2001.
Chair, Department of History and Social Science, 1986-present.
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Panel Member, Five Year Site Visit by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mississippi Humanities Council, 2013.
Project Participant, Teaching American History Grant, Lawrence and Simpson County Schools, Mississippi, 2004-
Project Director, Humanities Month (lecture and teacher award program), Mississippi Humanities Council, William Carey University, 2000-2004, 2006-2012.
Manuscript Referee, Journal of British Studies, 1997-2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute "Religion and Society in Early Modern England," Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, July-August, 1993.
Walter Craddock Prize, Southwestern Historical Association, March, 1993.
Project Director, Hattiesburg Concert Association Grant, Mississippi Arts Council, 1987-1988.
University Traveling Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1982-1983.
Angier B. Duke Scholar, Duke University, 1975-1979.
June 2017