Erskine Clarke

Erskine Clarke

Erskine Clarke is Professor of American Religious History at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He has lectured or served as a consultant in universities and theological schools in this country and in Europe, the West Indies, China, and South Africa. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College of the University of Cambridge and has been elected a Life Member of Clare Hall.

His primary scholarly interest has focused on religion and slavery in the American South. His publications include Wrestlin’ Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in the Old South, and Our Southern Zion: Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990. Wrestlin’Jacob was selected by Choice magazine of the American Library Association as an Academic Book of the Year. Wrestlin’ Jacob also received the Author of the Year Award from the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists.

His most recent work, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (2005, Yale University Press), is an “upstairs-downstairs” history of a white, slave-owning family and of a black slave family over four generations. Among the awards it has received is the Bancroft Prize, given by Columbia University for a distinguished work in American history.

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