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Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Lowe is a Professor of American History and a founder of the Global Religious Studies Program at ������Ƶ. She specializes in the Progressive Era, the history of American women, gender, race, and first-person life stories. She was instrumental in developing the American Academy of Religion’s national standards for what every undergraduate should know about religion. An Association of Professional Chaplains Board-Certified, interfaith chaplain (BCC, 2020), Maggie was also a past visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Her selected publications include: Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2005) (Winner of the Bridgewater State College Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award) From Megaphones to Microphones: Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960, Lowe, Susan Mallon Ross, Sandra Sarkala (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) “As to the Nature of Uncommon Expressions,” Jarena Lee’s Supernatural World View in the Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, in A Step Closer to Heaven (Routledge, 2021) They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Bridgewater Review (Fall 2019) Co-Author. “AAR Guidelines: What U.S. College Graduates Should Understand About Religion,” American Academy of Religion (2019).