Lisa Barnett

Dr. Lisa Barnett is an Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Phillips Theological Seminary. She did her PhD work in the history department at Texas Christian University, focusing on U.S. history since 1877 and specifically American Indian history and American religious history. She has two Master’s degrees from Brite Divinity School—a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology degree in History. She is also an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Dr. Barnett currently serves as a trustee for the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, oversees the Isaac Errett student history paper competition, and is the co-moderator of the Center for Indigenous Ministries (DOC). Dr. Barnett was the 2012 winner of the Isaac Errett Award for History sponsored by the Stone-Campbell Journal and the Disciples Historical Society. Her paper was published in the Spring 2013 edition of the Stone-Campbell Journal. She is also the author of two essays in the book on the history of Brite Divinity School published by TCU Press in 2011, and has a chapter included in Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America released by the University of Texas Press. She has a chapter on the Otoe Church of the First Born that will be included in Religion in the North American West, forthcoming with University of Nebraska Press and a chapter for another edited collection titled “Oklahoma Women Lead the Way into the KKK,” for American West between the World Wars forthcoming with the University of Oklahoma Press. Her book, Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937, is in production with the University of Oklahoma Press and will be out in Spring 2025.