He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004 and has been teaching at the University of Illinois since August of 2006. Professor Ebel is the author of Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Solider in the Great War (Princeton, 2010) and the co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California, 2012). He is currently working on two books. One focuses on the place of soldiers and war in American civil religion; the other is a religious history of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migration.