Kevin M. Lowe is a writer, musician, and independent scholar of American religious history. He has also worked as a research assistant for scholarly books, a field hand, a museum guide, a teaching assistant, a lecturer, and a copyeditor. Born and raised in Ithaca, New York, he earned his Ph.D. in American religious history from Penn State University in 2013. He is the author of Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a history of Future Farmers of America and youth agricultural education.

 

Kevin lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Sarah, his daughter Julia, and a neurotic hound dog named Hamish McMonkey.