Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2019 -
Assistant Professor of History, California State University San Marcos

​​Education

2019
2016
2011
2008
Ph.D., History, University of Notre Dame
M.A., History, University of Notre Dame
M.A., Religion, Yale Divinity School
​B.A., Theology, LCC International University

Publications

Book Manuscripts

2023
Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Refereed Journal Articles

2021
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​2020
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​2019
“Queer Rumors: Protestant Ministers, Unnatural Deeds, and Church Censure in the Twentieth-Century United States,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (forthcoming).
"The Itinerant Passions of Protestant Pastors: Ministerial Elopement Scandals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Press," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 1 (2020): 77-95,
doi.org/10.1017/S1537781419000458.
​"Paths of Duty: Religion, Marriage, and the Press in a Transatlantic Scandal, 1835-1858," Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (2019): 636-662, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875818000981.

Co-authored Refereed Journal Articles

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2013


​2011
with Rachel Bohlmann, "Networks of Piety and Slavery among Late Eighteenth-Century Rural Maryland Catholics," Current Research in Digital History 2 (2019), https://doi.org/10.31835/crdh.2019.09.
​with Baptiste Barbot, Sascha Hein, Jodi Reich, Philip Thuma, Elena L. Grigorenko, “Identifying Learning Profiles of Children at Risk for Specific Reading Disability: Using a Paired Association Foreign Language Learning Assessment for Understanding Learning Patterns,” Developmental Science 19, no. 3 (2016): 402-418.
with Jodi Reich, Sascha Hein, Lesley Hart, Nina Gumkowski, Elena L. Grigorenko, “Associations Between Household Responsibilities and Academic Competencies in the Context of Education Accessibility in Zambia,” Learning and Individual Differences 27 (October 2013): 250-257.
​with Elena L. Grigorenko, Aleksandr N. Kornev, Natalia Rakhlin, “Reading-Related Skills, Reading Achievement, and Inattention: A Correlational Study,” Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology 10, no. 2 (November 2011): 140-156.

​Book Chapters

2021
"Sex and Sexuality," in The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism, Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Book Reviews

2021

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​2020

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​2017

2017

​2016
Arlin C. Migliazzo, Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2020) in History: Reviews of New Books 49, no. 2 (2021): 38-39.
Marian E. Lindberg, Scandal on Plum Island: A Commander Becomes the Accused (New York: East End Press, 2020) in The Annals of Iowa 80, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 81-82.
​Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White, eds., Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2018) in The Journal of the History of Sexuality 29, no. 2 (May 2020): 285-288.
John Wigger, PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) in Reading Religion (October 26, 2017).
Heath Carter, and Laura Porter, eds., Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017) in American Catholic Studies Newsletter (Fall 2017).
Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Michael F. Pettinger, and Mark Larrimore, eds., Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms (New York: New York University Press, 2015) in Reading Religion (May 20, 2016).

Digital and Public History

Scholarly Contributions

Online Publications

2020
​2017
2016
​2016
"A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination," The Revealer (March 2)
“Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming out While Evangelical,” Religion Dispatches (June 23)
“Unholy Sundays,” Luther Seminary Center for Stewardship Leaders (September 2)
“’Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex’: A New Documentary,” Religion in American History (April 16)

Podcast Appearances

2021
​2019
2019
"Protestant Sex Scandals,"  The Classical Ideas Podcast
"There Won't Be Trumpets - Anyone Can Whistle," Putting It Together: The Music of Stephen Sondheim 
"Ministerial Sex Scandal," Ten Minute History

Media Mentions

2021
​2020
Audrey Clare Farley, "The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community," The New Republic (March 16)
Kate Shellnutt, "Jerry Falwell Jr. Finally Resigns from Liberty Amid Sex Scandal," Christianity Today (August 25)

Professional Presentations

Organized Panels

2021

​2019

2018
"Difficult Females: The Women Who Brought Down Powerful Men Before #MeToo," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19 (April 15-18)
"Evangelical Loyalties Reconsidered: A Roundtable on Sex, Power, and the Media in the Study of American Evangelicalism," American Historical Association Annual Meeting (January 3-6)​
"Romance, Reverends, and Renegades: Scandal as Gilded Age History," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting (April 12-14)

Conference Roundtables

2021
​“Christian Fundamentalist Responses to Sexual Revolutions,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, held virtually due to COVID-19 (April 15-18)

Conference Papers

​2021

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2019

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2018​
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2018

2015

2015

2014

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​2014

2014
"'The Sin of Lewdness': How the New York Female Benevolent Society Brought down a Fellow Moral Crusader," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19 (April 15-18)
​“Sex Talk: How U.S. Fundamentalists Went from Avoiding to Addressing a Touchy Subject,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, held virtually due to COVID-19 (March 1)​
“’She Is Not Pretty and He Is Forty-Five Years Old’: The Problem of Age in Pastoral Sex Scandals of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, cancelled due to COVID-19
​"The Crimes of Preachers: Religion, Scandal, and the Trouble with Digitized Archives," Digitised Newspapers: A New Eldorado for Historians?, held virtually due to COVID-19 (April 22-23)
​"Straightwashing Protestant Sex Scandals: The Tentative Queerness of Billy James Hargis, Jim Bakker, and Ted Haggard," American Society of Church History, New York, NY (January 3-6)
"Queer Rumors: Protestants Pastors, 'Unnatural' Deeds, and Church Censure in Early Twentieth-Century United States," Queer History Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (June 16-18)
"Visualizing Late Eighteenth-Century Maryland Catholic Slaveholding Using R Shiny," Current Research in Digital History, George Mason University, Arlington, VA (March 9)
"Hypocrisy, Piety, and the In-Between: Evangelical Sex Scandals in the Late Twentieth Century," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (January 3-6)
"Mapping Ministerial Elopers: Using GIS and R Shiny to Track Runaway Protestant Pastors, 1870-1914," GIS Day Lightning Talk, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (November 12)
​“Reverends on the Run: Ministerial Elopement Scandals in the Gilded Age Press,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA (April 12-14)
“’A Pervert Converted’: Religion and Marriage in a Nineteenth-Century Scandal,” Ways of Knowing Conference, Harvard Divinity School, Boston, MA (October 22-24)
“’An Uncertain Priest’ and His Wife: Anti-Catholicism and Coverture in a Nineteenth-Century Scandal,”  Heidelberg Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (September 28-29)
“’There Should Be No Discrimination’: Race and Religion in Midcentury St. Louis,” Graduate History Association Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (October 10-11)
“’Love Cannot Find Them’: Disappearing Ministers and Sensational Scandals in Late Nineteenth-Century America,” Religion And Sexual Revolutions Conference, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (May 9)
“From Psychopathy to Asylum: Homosexuality and Immigration, 1975-1990,” Queertopia Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (May 2-4)
“’With All Deliberate Speed’: Progressives, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Midcentury St. Louis,” Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH (April 4-6)

Honors & Awards

2019 – 2020
​2018
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2017
LGBTQ Religious History Award, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
Organization of American Historians Conference Travel Award for Ph.D. Students, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, University of Notre Dame

Grants & Fellowships

2020 – ​2021
​2019
​2019
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​2019
​2018
​2018
2017
2017
2016

​2016
2015
2015
2013 – 2014
2013
2008 – 2011
2004 – 2008
Sacred Writes Public Scholarship Training, Northeastern University
Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship in LGBT Studies, Yale University
Current Research in Digital History Conference Travel Grant, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
American Historical Association Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant
Newberry Library Mellon Fellowship, "The Archive: Theory, Form, Practice"
Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant, University of Notre Dame
Linda and Richard Kerber Fund for Research in the Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa
Professionalization Fund Award, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Writing Workshop Fellowship, “A Broader Public: Writing for the Online Audience, with the Editors of Religion Dispatches,” Collegeville Institute
Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certificate, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame
Professionalization Fund Award, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
R. W. Davis Travel Grant, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
Evan Frankel Fellowship, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
HRC Summer Institute for Religious and Theological Study, Vanderbilt University
Alice K. and William F. Burger Scholarship, Yale Divinity School
DeFehr Foundation Scholarship, LCC International University

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate
Historical Methods and Writing
​Religion in the United States
United States History, 1500-1877
U.S. LGBTQ+ History
Women in the United States
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Graduate
History and Applied Media Technology
History Teaching Practicum

Service to the Profession

2021 – present
2020 – 2023
2020 – ​2021
​2019
2019 – 2023
2018 – 2019
2016 – 2017
2015
​2014
Advisory Board, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network​
Committee on Academic Freedom, Organization of American Historians (co-chair since 2021)
Mentor, Holstein Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
Selection Committee, Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
​Editorial Board, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Hesburgh Libraries Graduate Student Advisory Panel, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
​Department of History Professionalization Fund Committee, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Search Committee Representative, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, St. Louis, MO
Co-chair, Graduate History Association Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Manuscript Reviewer​

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Professional Affiliations

2019 – ​present
​2016 – present
2015 – present
2014 – present
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
​Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Last updated: May 28, 2021