Professor Schweiger came to the University of Arkansas in 2000. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of the early American republic, antebellum America, and the history of religion in America to 1860.

She is completing a history of reading in antebellum America, to be published by Yale University Press, which focuses on two artisan families in the southern highlands in the 1840s and 1850s.

Her first book, The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia (Oxford, 2000), is a social history of religion in the South from the Second Great Awakening to the Gilded Age. She has also edited, with Donald G. Mathews, Religion in the South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture (North Carolina, 2004).

Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Cambridge, University of Arkansas, Yale University, Indiana University, the Spencer Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, the Huntington Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the American Antiquarian Society. She is on the board of editors and was a founding associate editor of the Journal of Southern Religion, an online peer-reviewed journal established in 1997.

HIST 2003 History of the American People to 1877
HIST 4643 Early American Republic
HIST 4653 Antebellum America
HIST 4493 Religion in America
HIST 5123 Research Seminar in American History
HIST 5103 Reading Seminar in American History

Books

Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture. Edited with Donald G. Mathews. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Essays

Alexander Campbell's Passion for Print: Protestant Sectarians and Publishing in the Early Republic. Forthcoming, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Max Weber in Mount Airy Or, Revivals and Social Theory in the Early South, in Religion in the American South, Schweiger and Mathews, eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

How Would Jesus Vote? The Prehistory of the Christian Right, Reviews in American History 32 (March 2004): 49-57.

Forum on Southern Religion, invited essay with Donald G. Mathews, Samuel S. Hill, and John B. Boles, Religion & American Culture (Summer 1998): 161-166.

The Restructuring of Southern Religion, in Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery, Snay and McKivigan, eds., University of Georgia Press, 1998.