Jacob Bennett joins the NMAR team

Earlier this year, the NMAR team welcomed Jacob Bennett into the fold as an editorial consultant. Currently a dual-degree master's student at the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies and LBJ School of Public Affairs, Jacob reached out to Board Member Robert Aird and President Chris Stevenson upon learning about the museum.

"I thought to myself, 'There has to be a museum solely devoted to religion in the United States, right'" said Jacob. "So I Googled it, and that's how I found the National Museum of American Religion. I instantly knew I wanted to be involved."

Jacob writes our "This Month in American Religious History" newsletter feature and drafts and edits various other museum materials. Raised in a Seventh-day Adventist home, he is interested in religion as a force in American and world history and passionate about issues related to religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

Jacob is currently researching Adventism under the Soviet Union as part of his graduate work at UT Austin and is also a research fellow at the Center for Mind and Culture, where he is working on writing and editing chapters for the Lawson Interviews of Seventh-day Adventists book project.