“Religion at Time Inc.: From the Beginning of Time to the End of Life” (2022).

Assistant Professor of Religion
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Gods of the Flesh: Religion, Sexuality, and Circum-Caribbean Migration in Black New Orleans, 1900-1940” (2021).

Published as: Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies
Harvard Divinity School

“Spiritual Rehabilitation: Religion and Cognitive Disability in Postwar America” (2020).

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Georgia State University

“Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn” (2018).

Published as: Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2020).

Associate Professor of Religion
Kalamazoo College

“A Loftier Race: American Liberal Protestants and Eugenics, 1870-1929” (2018).

Assistant Professor of History
Methodist Theological School of Ohio

“Moral Education in Devotion’s Wake: A History of Teaching Religion, Morality, and Race in 1950s and 1960s New York City Public Schools” (2017).

Published as: Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools (New York University Press, 2024).

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Public Policy & Law
Director, Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life
Trinity College

“‘Is That Religion?’ The Jazz Profession and Afro-Protestant Cultural Representation” (2016).

Published as: Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (New York University Press, 2020).

George E. Doty, Jr. & Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies
University of Pennsylvania

“Objects of Affection: The Material Religion of American Jewish Nostalgia” (2014).

Published as: Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice (New York University, 2021).

Associate Professor, John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies
San Francisco State University

“A Sort of Homecoming: The Gaithers and Southern Gospel into the Twenty-First Century” (2013).

Published as: The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century (University of Mississippi, 2017).

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Religious Studies
Fairfield University

“A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion” (2012).

Published as: A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina, 2017)

Associate Professor of American Religion and Culture
St. Louis University