Gene Mills
Lecturer
232H Holt Hall
(423) 425-5629
Email: David-Mills@utc.edu
D. E. “GENE” MILLS, JR. is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) for the Department of Religion at Florida State University with a primary area of American religious history and a secondary emphasis on post-Enlightenment philosophies and theories of religion. He began teaching at UTC in Fall 2008. He is currently writing his dissertation on religious exchange in post-contact Hawai’i entitled “The Transformation of Religious Identity as Evidenced in the Lives and Writings of Two Native Hawaiian Historians: John Papa I’i and Samuel Kamakau.” Mr. Mills also holds a Master of Theology from Emory University. He has published a wide range of reviews and articles for both print and online journals; has presented papers and organized sessions at national and regional academic society meetings; and taught at a variety of schools in the United States, Peru, and Kenya. He is also the co-founding List and Book Review Editor of H-Pentecostalism, an academic listserv through www.h-net.org on the history and culture of world Pentecostalism.
