I am a historian of American religion/religious history with particular interests in how constructions of religion take shape and change over time. My dissertation and broader graduate work focused on how various left-leaning groups of the 1960s imagined religion and its relationship to their activism. 

My current project is a study of Midwestern and rural conceptualizations of religion, especially from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries.

I also work in digital history and the digital humanities. I play with text analysis, code just enough to break things, and actually enjoy data wrangling. Current digital-ish work includes exploring the uses and abuses of LLMs in improving pre-existing OCR transcripts of document images.

Current classes (Fall 2024):

• HIS 2010
• HIS 2500
• HIS 4775: Digitizing US Countercultures

Past classes:

• HIS 1500
• HIS 2010
• HIS 2500
• HIS 5160: US Religious History