Patrick Q. Mason is Research Associate Professor at the Kroc Institute and Associate Director for Research of the Contending with Modernity Project.
He is an alumnus of Kroc's M.A. program (2003), and received his Ph.D. in history from Notre Dame in 2005. Mason wrote his dissertation on violence against religious minorities in the late nineteenth-century American South.
From 2007-2009 Mason was Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for American Studies at the American University in Cairo. His current book project is The Mormon Menace: Southern Anti-Mormonism and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010). He has published articles on topics including anti-Jewish violence in the American South, the history of state legislation against interracial marriage, the role of religion in the African American protest tradition, and the possibilities of Mormon peacebuilding.
