EDUCATION
2016 PhD, History, The Pennsylvania State University
2012 MA (with honors), History, The Pennsylvania State University
2008 BA, History and Political Science, Emory University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teacher (2015-present)
Department of Humanities
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Editorial Assistant (2013-2016)
The Journal of the Civil War Era
The University of North Carolina Press
Graduate Teaching Assistant (2010-2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Library Technical Assistant (2009-2010)
Published Materials Division
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Student Assistant (2004-2008)
Research Services Division
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Cornell University Press, 2022) [under contract]
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"The Old Anti-Catholicism Revived: Convent Narratives and Catholic Confidence in the 1920s," American Catholic Studies (forthcoming)
"Catholic Women, Hidden Work, and Separate Spheres: The Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming, April 2021)
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Rise and Decline of the Catholic Labor Schools," The Catholic Historical Review 104, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 475-498
"Blood, Honor, Reform, and God: Anti-Dueling Associations and Moral Reform in the Old South," American Nineteenth Century History 19, no. 1 (2018): 23-45
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," U.S. Catholic Historian 34, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 1-23
"Monk in the Middle: The Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and the Making of Catholic Identity," American Catholic Studies 125, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 25-45
"Catholics, Constitutions, and Conventions: Bishop John England and the Democratization of American Catholicism," The South Carolina Historical Magazine 114, no. 4 (Oct. 2013): 316-340
Book Reviews
Review of Adam L. Tate, Catholics' Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861, in The South Carolina Historical Magazine (forthcoming)
Review of Brett Malcolm Grainger, Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America, in H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews, April 2020
Review of Cassandra L. Yacovazzi, Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, August 14, 2019
Review of Daniel T. Rodgers, As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon, in H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews, June 2019
Review of Ryan W. Keating, Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era, in The Journal of Southern History 85, no. 2 (May 2019): 455-456
Review of Maura Jane Farrelly, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860, in The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, January 23, 2018
Review of Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois, in American Nineteenth Century History 18, no. 3 (Oct. 2017): 300-301
Review of Jenna Weissman Joselit, Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, September 8, 2017
Review of Barry Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, March 30, 2017
Review of William B. Kurtz, Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America, in The Civil War Monitor, July 20, 2016
Review of James M. Woods, A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900, in The South Carolina Historical Magazine 116, no. 1 (Jan. 2015): 88-90
Review of Yaacov Oved, Globalization of Communes, 1950-2010, in Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association 33, no. 2 (2013): 205-207
Digital Scholarship
"Teaching in the Age of COVID" (with Rachel Eshenour), Contingent Magazine, August 11, 12, 13, and 15, 2020 [Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV]
"Research Postcard: South Bend, Indiana," Contingent Magazine, September 20, 2019
"Women & Power in American History: Catholic Women as a Test Case," Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, March 25, 2018
"Total Eclipse of the Past," Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, August 21, 2017
"Historiographic Saints," Religion in American History: A Group Blog on Religion in American Culture and History, August 2, 2017
"Catholic History at the AHA," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 8, 2017
"Conservatism and the Media in Historical Perspective," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 7, 2017
"Reflections on the Academic Job Search," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 6, 2017
"Anti-Catholic Nativism in Antebellum America" and "American Catholicism and Vatican II," in The American Yawp, 2014
Contributor, Timeline of American Religious History, The Association of Religion Data Archives, 2013-2015
HONORS AND AWARDS
Conference Travel Grant (2019)
The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Research Travel Grant (2019)
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
University of Notre Dame
Special Collections Research Grant (2018)
LSU Libraries
Filson Fellowship (2016)
The Filson Historical Society
Graduate Student Summer Research Grant (2016)
American Catholic Historical Association
Charles Joseph Lindstrom Graduate Fellowship in the Richards Civil War Era Center (2016)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
Presidential Graduate Scholarship (2015)
American Catholic Historical Association
Ann Richards Award (2015)
History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Best ABD Research and Historiography Papers
External Funding Incentive Award (2014)
College of the Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant (2014)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Karen and Lewis H. Gold Graduate Fellowship (2014)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Pre-Dissertation Grant (2014)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Presidential Graduate Scholarship (2013)
American Catholic Historical Association
Conference Travel Grant (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Carl M. Isham Graduate Award (2013)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Pre-Dissertation Grant (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Travel Grant (2013)
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
University of Notre Dame
Dorothy Mohler Research Grant (2013)
The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
The Catholic University of America
Student Paper Award (2012)
Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
for "The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures and the Catholic Press Response"
Bernard Bellush Prize (2012)
New York Labor History Association
national award for best paper on labor or work history by a graduate student for “The Rise and Decline of a Catholic Labor School: Hartford’s Diocesan Labor Institute and the Education of the American Worker”
Conference Travel Grant (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
George P. Hammond Prize (2012)
Phi Alpha Theta
national award for best paper by a graduate student member for “The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and the Catholic Response"
Karen and Lewis H. Gold Graduate Fellowship (2012)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
E-tu Zen Sun Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Assistant (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Family Graduate Scholarship in American History (2012)
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant, Department of History (2011)
The Pennsylvania State University
Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant (2011)
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
Graduate Student Paper Award (2011)
Eastern International Regional Meeting
American Academy of Religion
Syracuse University
for "Aggiornamento, Southern Style: The Synod of Charleston and the Spirit of Vatican II"
Mark and Lucy Stitzer Seed Grant Award (2011)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant (2010)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Robert W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship (2010-2012)
The Pennsylvania State University
Phi Alpha Theta (inducted 2007)
National History Honor Society
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Gender and the Working Class in the Catholic Labor School Movement." The Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019 Conference (Duke University - Durham, North Carolina), June 1, 2019
"Silenced: Historiographical Aiding and Abetting in the Catholic Archive." American Historical Association 133rd Annual Meeting (Chicago, Illinois), January 3, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." The Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), June 1, 2018
"Isaac Hecker’s American Odyssey: Rewriting the Catholic Nation in The Church and the Age." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Denver, Colorado), January 7, 2017
"'When Al Smith is President': The Protestant Other and the Politics of Anti-Catholicism in the 1928 Presidential Election." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia), January 10, 2016
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.' American Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting (University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, Indiana), March 27, 2015
"Philippine Colonization and the American Catholic Press: A Study in Religious Imperialism." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC), January 2, 2014
"Blood, Honor, Reform, and God: Anti-Dueling Associations and the Remaking of Southern Masculinity." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting (St. Louis, Missouri), July 20, 2013
"The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures and the Catholic Press Response." Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), November 9, 2012
"'A Body of Sage, Prudent and Religious Counsellors': The Conventions of the Diocese of Charleston and the Place of Southern Catholicism in Antebellum Religious History." Southeastern Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (Atlanta, Georgia), March 3, 2012
"Aggiornamento, Southern Style: The Synod of Charleston and the Spirit of Vatican II." Eastern International Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion (Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York), May 6, 2011
"'Prepare the Way of the Lord – Prepare the Way for our Synod': The Catholic Diocese of Charleston on the Eve of the Third Millennium." 15th Annual James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference (Temple University - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), March 26, 2011
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
"A Church in Crisis: Catholic Sex Abuse in Historical Context." American Historical Association 133rd Annual Meeting (Chicago, Illinois), January 3, 2019
"O Sing to Me of Heaven: New Directions in the Religious History of the Civil War." The Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), June 1, 2018
"The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in the Twentieth Century." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia), January 10, 2016
"Colonizing Religion: Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Worlds." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC), January 2, 2014
INVITED TALKS
Panelist, "What's Next? Dialogue on a Church in Crisis." Aquinas Center, Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), April 28, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." LSU Libraries Special Collections (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), April 5, 2019
"Catholic Labor Schools in the Twentieth Century." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 25, 2019
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 18, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 4, 2019
"Religion and Race: The American Catholic Story." STM Coffehouse, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), April 8, 2018
"Catholicism, Race, and the South." Adult Enrichment Program, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), January 14, 2018
"Catholicism, Americanism, and Religious Liberty: A Church and Culture in Tension." STM Coffeehouse, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), September 10, 2017
"The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Interreligious Encounters in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." The Filson Historical Society (Louisville, Kentucky), July 28, 2016
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition Awards Ceremony (The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania), February 25, 2015
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Catholic Church, Labor Schools, and the American Worker." Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (University of Connecticut - Storrs, Connecticut), August 17, 2011
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of Independent Scholars Committee (2020-present)
American Society of Church History
Member of Board of Directors (2019-present)
Contingent Magazine
Peer Reviewer (2019)
U.S. Catholic Historian
The Catholic University of America Press
Peer Reviewer (2019)
Law and History Review
Cambridge University Press
Host, Career Discovery Days (2019)
Emory Alumni Association
Emory University
Member of Faith Formation Committee (2018-present)
St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia)
Social Studies Faculty Content Mentor (2018-2019; 2020-2021)
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Alumni Mentor Program (2018-2020)
College of the Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
Book Review Editor (2017-present)
H-SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Lead Teacher (2017; 2018)
Summer STEM Experience
Gwinnett County Public Schools
AP Comparative Government and Politics Workshop Leader (2017)
Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Georgia Department of Education
Faculty Sponsor (2017-2018)
Debate Club
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Judge (2016)
National History Day in Georgia
Mercer University
Coach (2015-present)
Quiz Bowl Team
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Graduate Mentor (2012-2013)
University Fellowships Office
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Council Representative (2012-2013)
Senate Committee on Research
The Pennsylvania State University
Member of Committee on Graduate Research (2012-2013)
Graduate Council
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Student Association Representative (2012-2013)
Graduate Council
The Pennsylvania State University
Judge (2012)
Graduate Exhibition
The Pennsylvania State University
Organizer (2012)
1 st Annual History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition
The Pennsylvania State University
Representative (2011-2012)
History Graduate Student Association
The Pennsylvania State University
Student Board Representative (2011-2013)
Libraries Development Board
The Pennsylvania State University
Member of Libraries Committee (2011)
Graduate Student Association
The Pennsylvania State University
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AP Comparative Government and Politics Reader (2018; 2019; 2020)
College Board
Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan E. Brockopp (2016-2017)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. Solsiree Del Moral (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. William A. Blair (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (2011)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Catholic Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Society of Civil War Historians
The Southern Historical Association
2016 PhD, History, The Pennsylvania State University
2012 MA (with honors), History, The Pennsylvania State University
2008 BA, History and Political Science, Emory University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teacher (2015-present)
Department of Humanities
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Editorial Assistant (2013-2016)
The Journal of the Civil War Era
The University of North Carolina Press
Graduate Teaching Assistant (2010-2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Library Technical Assistant (2009-2010)
Published Materials Division
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Student Assistant (2004-2008)
Research Services Division
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Cornell University Press, 2022) [under contract]
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"The Old Anti-Catholicism Revived: Convent Narratives and Catholic Confidence in the 1920s," American Catholic Studies (forthcoming)
"Catholic Women, Hidden Work, and Separate Spheres: The Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming, April 2021)
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Rise and Decline of the Catholic Labor Schools," The Catholic Historical Review 104, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 475-498
"Blood, Honor, Reform, and God: Anti-Dueling Associations and Moral Reform in the Old South," American Nineteenth Century History 19, no. 1 (2018): 23-45
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," U.S. Catholic Historian 34, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 1-23
"Monk in the Middle: The Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and the Making of Catholic Identity," American Catholic Studies 125, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 25-45
"Catholics, Constitutions, and Conventions: Bishop John England and the Democratization of American Catholicism," The South Carolina Historical Magazine 114, no. 4 (Oct. 2013): 316-340
Book Reviews
Review of Adam L. Tate, Catholics' Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861, in The South Carolina Historical Magazine (forthcoming)
Review of Brett Malcolm Grainger, Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America, in H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews, April 2020
Review of Cassandra L. Yacovazzi, Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, August 14, 2019
Review of Daniel T. Rodgers, As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon, in H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews, June 2019
Review of Ryan W. Keating, Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era, in The Journal of Southern History 85, no. 2 (May 2019): 455-456
Review of Maura Jane Farrelly, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860, in The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, January 23, 2018
Review of Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois, in American Nineteenth Century History 18, no. 3 (Oct. 2017): 300-301
Review of Jenna Weissman Joselit, Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, September 8, 2017
Review of Barry Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, March 30, 2017
Review of William B. Kurtz, Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America, in The Civil War Monitor, July 20, 2016
Review of James M. Woods, A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900, in The South Carolina Historical Magazine 116, no. 1 (Jan. 2015): 88-90
Review of Yaacov Oved, Globalization of Communes, 1950-2010, in Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association 33, no. 2 (2013): 205-207
Digital Scholarship
"Teaching in the Age of COVID" (with Rachel Eshenour), Contingent Magazine, August 11, 12, 13, and 15, 2020 [Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV]
"Research Postcard: South Bend, Indiana," Contingent Magazine, September 20, 2019
"Women & Power in American History: Catholic Women as a Test Case," Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, March 25, 2018
"Total Eclipse of the Past," Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, August 21, 2017
"Historiographic Saints," Religion in American History: A Group Blog on Religion in American Culture and History, August 2, 2017
"Catholic History at the AHA," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 8, 2017
"Conservatism and the Media in Historical Perspective," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 7, 2017
"Reflections on the Academic Job Search," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life, January 6, 2017
"Anti-Catholic Nativism in Antebellum America" and "American Catholicism and Vatican II," in The American Yawp, 2014
Contributor, Timeline of American Religious History, The Association of Religion Data Archives, 2013-2015
HONORS AND AWARDS
Conference Travel Grant (2019)
The Labor and Working-Class History Association
Research Travel Grant (2019)
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
University of Notre Dame
Special Collections Research Grant (2018)
LSU Libraries
Filson Fellowship (2016)
The Filson Historical Society
Graduate Student Summer Research Grant (2016)
American Catholic Historical Association
Charles Joseph Lindstrom Graduate Fellowship in the Richards Civil War Era Center (2016)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
Presidential Graduate Scholarship (2015)
American Catholic Historical Association
Ann Richards Award (2015)
History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Best ABD Research and Historiography Papers
External Funding Incentive Award (2014)
College of the Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant (2014)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Karen and Lewis H. Gold Graduate Fellowship (2014)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Pre-Dissertation Grant (2014)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Presidential Graduate Scholarship (2013)
American Catholic Historical Association
Conference Travel Grant (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Carl M. Isham Graduate Award (2013)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Pre-Dissertation Grant (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Travel Grant (2013)
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
University of Notre Dame
Dorothy Mohler Research Grant (2013)
The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
The Catholic University of America
Student Paper Award (2012)
Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
for "The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures and the Catholic Press Response"
Bernard Bellush Prize (2012)
New York Labor History Association
national award for best paper on labor or work history by a graduate student for “The Rise and Decline of a Catholic Labor School: Hartford’s Diocesan Labor Institute and the Education of the American Worker”
Conference Travel Grant (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
George P. Hammond Prize (2012)
Phi Alpha Theta
national award for best paper by a graduate student member for “The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and the Catholic Response"
Karen and Lewis H. Gold Graduate Fellowship (2012)
George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Pennsylvania State University
E-tu Zen Sun Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Assistant (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
McCourtney Family Graduate Scholarship in American History (2012)
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant, Department of History (2011)
The Pennsylvania State University
Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant (2011)
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
Graduate Student Paper Award (2011)
Eastern International Regional Meeting
American Academy of Religion
Syracuse University
for "Aggiornamento, Southern Style: The Synod of Charleston and the Spirit of Vatican II"
Mark and Lucy Stitzer Seed Grant Award (2011)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Travel Grant (2010)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Robert W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship (2010-2012)
The Pennsylvania State University
Phi Alpha Theta (inducted 2007)
National History Honor Society
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Gender and the Working Class in the Catholic Labor School Movement." The Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019 Conference (Duke University - Durham, North Carolina), June 1, 2019
"Silenced: Historiographical Aiding and Abetting in the Catholic Archive." American Historical Association 133rd Annual Meeting (Chicago, Illinois), January 3, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." The Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), June 1, 2018
"Isaac Hecker’s American Odyssey: Rewriting the Catholic Nation in The Church and the Age." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Denver, Colorado), January 7, 2017
"'When Al Smith is President': The Protestant Other and the Politics of Anti-Catholicism in the 1928 Presidential Election." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia), January 10, 2016
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.' American Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting (University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, Indiana), March 27, 2015
"Philippine Colonization and the American Catholic Press: A Study in Religious Imperialism." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC), January 2, 2014
"Blood, Honor, Reform, and God: Anti-Dueling Associations and the Remaking of Southern Masculinity." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting (St. Louis, Missouri), July 20, 2013
"The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures and the Catholic Press Response." Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), November 9, 2012
"'A Body of Sage, Prudent and Religious Counsellors': The Conventions of the Diocese of Charleston and the Place of Southern Catholicism in Antebellum Religious History." Southeastern Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (Atlanta, Georgia), March 3, 2012
"Aggiornamento, Southern Style: The Synod of Charleston and the Spirit of Vatican II." Eastern International Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion (Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York), May 6, 2011
"'Prepare the Way of the Lord – Prepare the Way for our Synod': The Catholic Diocese of Charleston on the Eve of the Third Millennium." 15th Annual James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference (Temple University - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), March 26, 2011
CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
"A Church in Crisis: Catholic Sex Abuse in Historical Context." American Historical Association 133rd Annual Meeting (Chicago, Illinois), January 3, 2019
"O Sing to Me of Heaven: New Directions in the Religious History of the Civil War." The Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), June 1, 2018
"The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in the Twentieth Century." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia), January 10, 2016
"Colonizing Religion: Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Worlds." American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC), January 2, 2014
INVITED TALKS
Panelist, "What's Next? Dialogue on a Church in Crisis." Aquinas Center, Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), April 28, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." LSU Libraries Special Collections (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), April 5, 2019
"Catholic Labor Schools in the Twentieth Century." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 25, 2019
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 18, 2019
"Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War." MORE Theology: A Series of Classes on Catholic Theology, History, and Spirituality, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), March 4, 2019
"Religion and Race: The American Catholic Story." STM Coffehouse, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), April 8, 2018
"Catholicism, Race, and the South." Adult Enrichment Program, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), January 14, 2018
"Catholicism, Americanism, and Religious Liberty: A Church and Culture in Tension." STM Coffeehouse, St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia), September 10, 2017
"The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Interreligious Encounters in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." The Filson Historical Society (Louisville, Kentucky), July 28, 2016
"Catholic Gatekeepers: The Church and Immigration Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition Awards Ceremony (The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania), February 25, 2015
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Catholic Church, Labor Schools, and the American Worker." Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (University of Connecticut - Storrs, Connecticut), August 17, 2011
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of Independent Scholars Committee (2020-present)
American Society of Church History
Member of Board of Directors (2019-present)
Contingent Magazine
Peer Reviewer (2019)
U.S. Catholic Historian
The Catholic University of America Press
Peer Reviewer (2019)
Law and History Review
Cambridge University Press
Host, Career Discovery Days (2019)
Emory Alumni Association
Emory University
Member of Faith Formation Committee (2018-present)
St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Decatur, Georgia)
Social Studies Faculty Content Mentor (2018-2019; 2020-2021)
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Alumni Mentor Program (2018-2020)
College of the Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
Book Review Editor (2017-present)
H-SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Lead Teacher (2017; 2018)
Summer STEM Experience
Gwinnett County Public Schools
AP Comparative Government and Politics Workshop Leader (2017)
Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Georgia Department of Education
Faculty Sponsor (2017-2018)
Debate Club
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Judge (2016)
National History Day in Georgia
Mercer University
Coach (2015-present)
Quiz Bowl Team
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Graduate Mentor (2012-2013)
University Fellowships Office
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Council Representative (2012-2013)
Senate Committee on Research
The Pennsylvania State University
Member of Committee on Graduate Research (2012-2013)
Graduate Council
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Student Association Representative (2012-2013)
Graduate Council
The Pennsylvania State University
Judge (2012)
Graduate Exhibition
The Pennsylvania State University
Organizer (2012)
1 st Annual History Graduate Student Association Paper Competition
The Pennsylvania State University
Representative (2011-2012)
History Graduate Student Association
The Pennsylvania State University
Student Board Representative (2011-2013)
Libraries Development Board
The Pennsylvania State University
Member of Libraries Committee (2011)
Graduate Student Association
The Pennsylvania State University
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AP Comparative Government and Politics Reader (2018; 2019; 2020)
College Board
Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan E. Brockopp (2016-2017)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. Solsiree Del Moral (2013)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. William A. Blair (2012)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Assistant to Dr. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (2011)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Catholic Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Society of Civil War Historians
The Southern Historical Association