Selected Courses
Undergraduate
African American Religious History
Catholics in America
“Cult” Controversies in America
Race and Religion in America
Religion and American Film
Women, Gender, and Religion in America
Graduate
African American Religious History
American Religious Utopias
Religion in Modern American History and Culture
Religious Visual and Material Culture
Space, Place, and American Religion
In 2020, I was honored to receive Princeton University’s Graduate Mentoring Award for the Humanities from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and by nomination of students.
Advising
Current Dissertation Advisees
Dissertations Advised
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“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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Associate Professor of American Religion and Culture
St. Louis University