Faculty Profiles

Featured scholarly/creative works

• Paddison, J. A. (2025). Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California’s First Cult Scare. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/unholy-sensations-9780197775325?cc=us&lang=en&
• Paddison, J. A. (2019). The Mystery of Everything Out There: Bigfoot and Religion in the Twenty-First Century. In The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape (pp. 78–91). New York, United States: Routledge.
• Paddison, J. A. (2016, December). New Directions in the History of Religion and Race. American Quarterly.
• Paddison, J. A. (2015, October). Disorderly Doctrines: Religion, Race, and the Fountaingrove Sex Scandal of 1891-1892. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
• Paddison, J. (2012). American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, United Staes: University of California Press.