{"id":53499,"date":"2025-09-23T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&p=53499"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:04:47","slug":"r-charles-weller","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Charles Weller"},"content":{"rendered":"

R. Charles Weller<\/strong>, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His work focuses on religious-cultural identity and relations in Western-Asian and world history. Among numerous publications in both English and Kazakh, he is currently working on a multi-volume study of how canons of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sacred law have shaped American legal heritage.<\/p>\n

Charles lives in Redmond.<\/p>\n

This talk is presented in partnership with\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service<\/span><\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0which educates citizens across the state about democratic institutions and public affairs, and is based at Washington State University. For more information, visit\u00a0The Foley Institute\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","speaker_topic":[876],"class_list":["post-53499","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","hentry","speaker_topic-history"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nR. Charles Weller<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How America Talks (Differently) About Slavery - R. Charles Weller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"R. Charles Weller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His work focuses on religious-cultural identity and relations in...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Humanities Washington\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-25T21:04:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Weller1.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"R. Charles Weller","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How America Talks (Differently) About Slavery - R. Charles Weller","og_description":"R. Charles Weller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His work focuses on religious-cultural identity and relations in...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/","og_site_name":"Humanities Washington","article_modified_time":"2025-09-25T21:04:47+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Weller1.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/","url":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/","name":"R. Charles Weller","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-09-23T22:19:13+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-25T21:04:47+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/r-charles-weller\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"R. Charles Weller"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/","name":"Humanities Washington","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/53499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_topic?post=53499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}