Faculty Profiles

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. (2025, March). How Have Cults Shaped American History? History Today, 75(3), 9. Retrieved from https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-have-cults-shaped-american-history

Paddison, J. A. (2023, July). Review of We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and  Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California. Western Historical Quarterly.

Paddison, J. A. (2022, December). Review of Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916. Journal of American History.

Paddison, J. A. (2022, August). Review of American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.

Paddison, J. A. (2022, July). Review of The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Journal of Presbyterian History.

Paddison, J. A. (2022, July). Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism. Pacific Historical Review.

Paddison, J. A. (2021, April). Review of Reconstruction and Mormon America. Mormon Studies Review.

Paddison, J. A. (2020, July). Review of Finding God Through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American  Religion in a Global Age. California History.

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. (2019, December). Review of The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Paddison, J. A. (2018, October). Review of Wild Wild Country. Pacific Historical Review.

Paddison, J. A. (2017). Studying Gods and Monsters. In Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us (pp. 161–173). Jefferson, N.C., United States: McFarland & Co.

Paddison, J. A. (2016, December). New Directions in the History of Religion and Race. American Quarterly.

Paddison, J. A. (2016, October). Review of Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968. Southern California Quarterly.

Paddison, J. A. (2016, January). Review of Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness. Western Historical Review.

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. A. (2015). Race, Religion, and Naturalization: How the West Shaped Citizenship Debates in the  Reconstruction Congress. In Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (pp. 181–201). Berkeley, CA, United States: University of California Press.

Paddison, J. A. (2014). Review of Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor,  Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Journal of the Civil War Era.

Paddison, J. A. (2014). Review of Faith and Race in American Political Life. American Studies Journal.

Paddison, J. A. (2013). Review of Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient. Journal of Arizona History.

Paddison, J. (2012). American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, United Staes: University of California Press.

Paddison, J. A. (2011). “Woman Is Everywhere the Purifier” The Politics of Temperance, 1878-1900. In California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression (pp. 59–76). Lincoln, Ne, United States: University of Nebraska Press.

Paddison, J. A. (2009, October). Anti-Catholicism and Race in Post-Civil-War San Francisco. Pacific Historical Review.

Paddison, J. A. (2003). Capturing California. In Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California (pp. 126–136). Berkeley, CA, United States: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.ucpress.edu/books/taming-the-elephant/paper

Paddison, J. A. (1999). Summers of Worry, Summers of Defiance: San Franciscans for Academic Freedom and Education and the Bay Area Opposition to HUAC, 1959-1960. California History, 78, 188–201.