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 APPOINTMENTS
Book Review Editor (2017-present)
H-SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Instructor (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
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Rise and Decline of the Hartford Diocesan Labor Institute and the Fate of Catholic Labor Schools," The Catholic Historical Review (forthcoming)
"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 (October 2013): 316-340
Book Reviews
Review of Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois, in American Nineteenth Century History (forthcoming)
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 (forthcoming)
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 (January 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
"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
Invited Blog Posts
"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
HONORS AND AWARDS
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
“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
“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 LECTURES
“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
Judge (2016)
National History Day in Georgia
Mercer University
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
Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan E. Brockopp (2016-2017)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Associate (2013-2015)
The Association of Religion Data Archives
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
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
LANGUAGES
Italian (reading)
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
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 APPOINTMENTS
Book Review Editor (2017-present)
H-SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Instructor (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
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"Education in the Name of the Lord: The Rise and Decline of the Hartford Diocesan Labor Institute and the Fate of Catholic Labor Schools," The Catholic Historical Review (forthcoming)
"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 (October 2013): 316-340
Book Reviews
Review of Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois, in American Nineteenth Century History (forthcoming)
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 (forthcoming)
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 (January 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
"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
Invited Blog Posts
"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
HONORS AND AWARDS
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
“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
“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 LECTURES
“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
Judge (2016)
National History Day in Georgia
Mercer University
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
Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan E. Brockopp (2016-2017)
Department of History
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Associate (2013-2015)
The Association of Religion Data Archives
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
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
LANGUAGES
Italian (reading)
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
