Professor of Religion
email: nhardes@clemson.edu
Dr. Hardesty received her Master's degree in newspaper journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She worked for both The Christian Century and Eternity magazines before pursuing her Ph.D. in the History of Christianity from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, under the direction of Martin E. Marty, was titled "'Your Daughters Shall Prophesy': Revivalism and Feminism in the Age of Finney." It was published under that title by Carlson Publishers. She is also the author of Women Called to Witness (Abingdon Press; rev. ed. University of Tennessee Press); Great Women of Faith (Baker; Abingdon Press); and Inclusive Language in the Church (Westminster John Knox Press). With Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Hardesty wrote All We're Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today, which has gone through three editions with Word Books, Abingdon Press, and Eerdmans. She has just recently published Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements (Hendrickson Publishers). Other research interests include African American religion and women and religion in the South.