David G. Hackett
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Emory University
North American Religious History, Sociology of Religion

Office: 132 Anderson Hall
Phone: (352) 392-1625
Email: dhackett@religion.ufl.edu

David Hackett received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 1986. His first book, The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York 1652-1836 (Oxford, 1991), received the Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church. He is currently exploring the relationship between men’s religious lives in Freemasonry and their participation in organized religious life in Freemasonry and American Religious History (Princeton). The second edition of his edited reader Religion and American Culture was published in 2003 (Routledge). Dr. Hackett’s personal memoir on the relationship between contemplative Catholicism and Zen Buddhism, The Silent Dialogue: Zen Letters to a Trappist Monk, was published in 1996 (Continuum). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Protestantism in American Culture, and has been a resident scholar at Princeton’s Center for Theological Inquiry and the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Collegeville, Minnesota.