BIO
Professor Baysa is a scholar of religion in America and historian of Christianity, with particular interest in the history of media technological infrastructures to facilitate religious expression, dialogue, and debate. Professor Baysa’s current book manuscript, Sacred Voices, Printed Silences: The Struggle Against Protestant Dominance in Early American Publishing, is scheduled for publication April 2027 with NYU Press as part of their North American Religions Series. It explores the publishing difficulties faced by racialized and heterodox writers across early British North America; to reveal how cultural barriers were built into the very financial structures, mechanical design, and social networks of the publishing industry to exclude such voices from the public sphere. His second book project will be a biography of eighteenth-century minister Charles Chauncy, whose secret conversion from Calvinism to Universalism facilitated the institutional transformations of New England religion into its liberal strains by the nineteenth century.
Bio
Professor Baysa is a scholar of religion in America and historian of Christianity, with particular interest in the history of media technological infrastructures to facilitate religious expression, dialogue, and debate. Professor Baysa’s current book manuscript, Sacred Voices, Printed Silences: The Struggle Against Protestant Dominance in Early American Publishing, is scheduled for publication April 2027 with NYU Press as part of their North American Religions Series. It explores the publishing difficulties faced by racialized and heterodox writers across early British North America; to reveal how cultural barriers were built into the very financial structures, mechanical design, and social networks of the publishing industry to exclude such voices from the public sphere. His second book project will be a biography of eighteenth-century minister Charles Chauncy, whose secret conversion from Calvinism to Universalism facilitated the institutional transformations of New England religion into its liberal strains by the nineteenth century.