Joel E. Tishken
Assistant Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 341 – 509-335-8371
jtishken@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2002
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1997
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Parkside, 1993
Academic & Professional Interests
Tishken teaches courses on African history, world history, world religions, and the Islamic world. His research interests are in Southern and Central Africa, the history of Christianity, prophecy, neo-indigenous religions, and the theory and pedagogy of religion.
Publications
Tishken is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Prophets, Prophecy, and Power in the Nazareth Baptist Church that analyzes the uses of prophecy within the Nazareth Baptist Church of southern Africa. His future research plans include a historiographical and theoretical examination of scholarly uses of “God” within the study of African indigenous religions and additional edited collections on Yoruba orisas. Some of his other noteworthy publications include:
Coedited with Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi, Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Guest-editor, Nova Religio, 13: 1 (Aug. 2009) special edition on African Christianity
"African Independence Movements." In Atlantic Worlds, ed. by Kevin Roberts and Toyin Falola. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008."The History of Prophecy in West Africa: Indigenous, Islamic, and Christian." History Compass 5: 5 (2007): 1468-1482.
"Lies Teachers Teach about World Religious History." Bulletin of World History 23: 1 (Spring 2007): 14-18.
"Whose Nazareth Baptist Church?: Prophecy, Power, and Schism in South Africa."
Nova Religio 9: 4 (May 2006): 79-97.