Beginning in fall 2009. Research interests include religion in early America and the history of New England.
Earned a 4.0 GPA. Wrote a master’s thesis titled “Debating the Hartford Convention: Newspaper Politics, Political Opposition, and the Paranoid Style.”
Earned a 3.91 GPA and graduated summa cum laude. Minor in ancient Greek.
“Confessionalization and the Creedal Tradition,” presented to the South Carolina Historical Association, March 2009.
“‘Six Days Shalt Thou Labor’: Work, Sabbath Observance, and Cultural Conversion in John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians,” presented to the South Carolina Historical Association, March 2008.
“‘Call to Remembrance the Former Days’: The Use of History in New England Occasional Sermons, 1660–1684,” presented to Christianity & American History conference, Liberty University, April 2007.
“The Interrelationship of Reason, Faith, and Revelation in St. Thomas Aquinas,” presented to the South Carolina Historical Association, March 2006.
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch, The Southern Historian 30 (spring 2009), 103–5.
Review of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835, by Cedrick May, Journal of Southern Religion (forthcoming).
Review of Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Army History (forthcoming).
“Grand Army of the Republic” and “Theodore Roosevelt” in The Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America, ed. William A. Pencak (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009).
“Draft” in The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia, ed. Paul Finkelman and Martin Hershock (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008).
“Alexander Hamilton,” “Fugitive Slave Acts,” “Domestic Slave Trade,” and “New England” in The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America, ed. Christopher Bates (M. E. Sharpe, forthcoming).
“James G. Birney Runs for President (1840 & 1844)” in The Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, ed. John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman (Facts on File, forthcoming).
“New Harmony (1814–1830)” in The Encyclopedia of American Immigration, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen (Salem Press, forthcoming).
“Salmon P. Chase” in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (CQ Press, forthcoming).
Served as head of the reference/information-services department of an academic library. Answered reference questions and assisted students and faculty with research. Managed and trained student employees who worked at the reference desk. Oversaw a study of reference material usage to save money on future purchases. Wrote a series of guides to the library’s collections. Served on the website committee and the main library committee.
Edited multiple books, including A Handbook for New Testament Greek, Physical Science, and Chemistry. Served as the lead editor on several projects. Consistently finished my responsibilities on schedule, and radically trimmed workflow to complete a very late project. Frequently contributed to department newsletter. Initiated and developed a wiki for department documentation that eventually grew company-wide.
Designed and developed a companion website to a DVD documentary about the Great Awakening. Gathered primary and secondary historical sources as content. Used the Omeka CMS. Integrated both educational and marketing materials.
Maintained self-hosted blog using WordPress for over four years. Wrote about history and other academic topics.
Main contributor to a group blog about the history of American religion. Also created and maintained the website.
Journeyman proficiency in PHP, CSS, and HTML. Able to work with content-management systems such as WordPress and Omeka.
List editor, H-GRAD, http://www.h-net.org/~grad/ (2009–)
Rose and Irving Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University (2009–)
Leila Custard Award for best senior history paper, Bob Jones University (2006)
American Society of Church History
American Historical Association
Conference on Faith and History
South Carolina Historical Association