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

Refereed Journal Articles

2020
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​2019
"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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​2016



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.
co-first author and equal contributor with Baptiste Barbot; also with 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

2020
"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

2020

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​2017

2017

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

Podcast Appearances

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

Conference Participation

Panels Organized

2020

​2019

2018
"Difficult Females: The Women Who Brought Down Powerful Men Before #MeToo," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting [canceled due to COVID-19]
"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)

Papers Presented

2020

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2015

2015

2014

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2014

2014
"The Crimes of Preachers: Religion, Scandal, and the Trouble with Digitized Archives," Digitised Newspapers: A New Eldorado for Historians? Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland [held virtually due to COVID-19]
​"'The Sin of Lewdness': How the New York Female Benevolent Society Brought down a Fellow Moral Crusader," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. [canceled due to COVID-19]
​"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” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA (April 12-14)
“’A Pervert Converted’: Religion and Marriage in a Nineteenth-Century Scandal” at the 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” at the Heidelberg Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (September 28-29)
“’There Should Be No Discrimination’: Race and Religion in Midcentury St. Louis” at the 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” at the 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” at the Queertopia Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (May 2-4)
“’With All Deliberate Speed’: Progressives, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Midcentury St. Louis” at the 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
​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 [postponed due to COVID-19]
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

California State University San Marcos

Undergraduate
Historical Methods and Writing
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

2020 – 2023
2019
2019 – 2023
2018 – 2019
2016 – 2017
2015
​2014
Committee on Academic Freedom, Organization of American Historians
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

Professional Affiliations

2019 – ​present
​2016 – present
2015 – present
2014 – present
2013 – 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
American Academy of Religion
Last updated: June 15, 2020