Bethany Moreton

A native of Mississippi, Bethany Moreton completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale in 2006. She spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences before taking up her current position as Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia. In addition to To Serve God and Wal-Mart, she has published articles on globalization, service labor, and conservative Christianity in the U.S. and Latin America. The Center for the Humanities at the University of Michigan named her the 2009 Emerging Scholar. She has assigned her share of the proceeds from To Serve God and Wal-Mart to the Economic Justice Coalition of Athens, Georgia and Interfaith Worker Justice of Chicago.