Rate My Professor Douglas Montagna

Montagna's research centers on 19th-century American religious history, particularly Methodism in the Midwest, exploring themes of education, violence, honor culture, and antislavery movements. Notable publications include “Ohio, Evangelical Religion, and the Merging of the Antislavery Movement: Joshua R. Giddings, Salmon P. Chase, and Their Remarkable Crusades Against Slavery” in Studies in Midwestern History (2019); “Education and the Refinement of 19th Century Methodism in the Midwest” in Methodist History (2006, Vol. XLIV, No. 2); “‘God Bless the Methodist Church’: The Origins of the Methodist-Republican Alliance Before the Civil War” in Methodist History; and a chapter on the History of Christianity in the Antebellum Midwest in The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History (2025). He received the Pew Program in Religion and American History Dissertation Fellowship for 1995-1996 and a Grand Valley State University service award in 2026. Montagna has delivered numerous presentations at conferences including the Ohio Valley History Conference, American Society of Church Historians, and Great Lakes History Conference. He serves on the editorial board of the Grand Valley Journal of History and has mentored students in the McNair Scholars Program.