Research interests: American religious history, colonial America, early Republic
Thesis: “Debating the Hartford Convention: Newspaper Politics, Political Opposition, and the Paranoid Style.”
Committee: John Matzko (advisor), Linda Hayner, Brenda Schoolfield
Summa cum laude
Minor: ancient Greek (Koine)
“Confessionalization and the Creedal Tradition,” The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (March 2010): 79–90. [PDF]
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 August 2010).
“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).
Conference participant, THATCamp 2010, George Mason University, 22–23 May 2010. [blog post explaining participation]
“‘Six Days Shalt Thou Labor’: Work, Sabbath Observance, and Cultural Conversion in John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association, March 2008.
“‘Call to Remembrance the Former Days’: The Use of History in New England Occasional Sermons, 1660–1684,” paper presented at the Christianity & American History conference, Liberty University, April 2007.
“The Interrelationship of Reason, Faith, and Revelation in St. Thomas Aquinas,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association, March 2006.
Collections of primary sources related to the conversion experiences of American laymen and laywomen, from the colonial era through the nineteenth century
Academic blog about history and digital humanities
Main contributor to a group blog about the history of American religion
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.
Co-organizer, THATCamp New England 2010
List editor, H-GRAD (2009–)
Rose and Irving Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University (2009–)
Leila Custard Award for best senior history paper, Bob Jones University (2006)
advanced reading knowledge of ancient Greek (Koine); basic reading knowledge of classical Latin
web development: journeyman proficiency in PHP, CSS, HTML and other web-development technologies; experienced in using and customizing content-management systems such as WordPress and Omeka
American Society of Church History (2007–)
American Historical Association (2009–)
Conference on Faith and History (2007–)
South Carolina Historical Association (2006–2009)