David Sehat

David Sehat is an American academic. He is a professor of American intellectual and cultural history at Georgia State University. He was the 2017-18 John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute and Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of three books. He won the Organization of American Historians's 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for The Myth of American Religious Freedom.

Works Sehat, David. (2007) "The civilizing mission of Booker T. Washington." The Journal of Southern History 73.2 (2007): 323-362. online Sehat, David. (2007) "The American moral establishment: Religion and liberalism in the nineteenth century'" (PhD dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007) online Sehat, David. (2008) "Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch" The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7.3 (2008): 325-352.

Sehat, David. "Thomas Jefferson and Us." The William and Mary Quarterly 74.4 (2017): 771-776. Sehat, David. (2020) "Political atheism: the secularization and liberalization of American public life." Modern Intellectual History 17.1 (2020): 249-277. online online