Last updated 03/21/2024
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History, 2022
M.A. University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History, 2018
B.A. Yale University, Distinction in History, cum laude, 2014
Randolph College, Assistant Professor of History and Ainsworth Scholar in American Culture (2023-Present)
Randolph College, Ainsworth Visiting Assistant Professor of American Culture (2022-2023)
““Step by Step: American Interracialism and the Origins of Talk-First Activism,” Modern American History 5, no. 1 (March 2022): 1-25.
“With Care and Context,” Hybrid Pedagogy, June 17, 2021.
“Methodists and Lynching: Racial Violence and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1880-1930,” Methodist Review: A Journal of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies 7 (2015): 21-43.
“From Rib to Robe: Women’s Ordination in The United Methodist Church,” Methodist History 53, no. 3 (April 2015): 162-172.
Land and Legacy, with Janet S. Dunkelbarger, Natasha Roth-Rowland, Lauren Van Nest, and Chloe Downe Wells, Praxis Program, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library, last modified July 31, 2020. Reviewed by Claire A. Tratnyek, Reviews in Digital Humanities 2, no. 5 (May 2021).
Review of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America, by Darren Dochuk, Christian Century 136, no. 22 (October 23, 2019): 46-47.
“Reds, Rosaries, and Revolutionary Governments: Church-State Relations in Cuba and Nicaragua in the Aftermath of Revolution,” Yale Historical Review 2 (Spring 2013): 58-71.
Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grant, Organization of American Historians, 2022
PhD Plus Fellowship, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Virginia, 2021
Arts and Sciences Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2021
Renate Voris Fellowship, Renate Voris Fellowship Foundation, 2020
Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2020
Research Fellowship, Presbyterian Historical Society, 2020
Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2020
Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant, American Studies Association, 2019
Conference Travel Grant, Department of History of the University of Virginia, 2019
Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2019
Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship, American Jewish Historical Society, 2019
Hagley Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Center, 2019
Joseph and Eva R. Dave Fellowship, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2019
John F. Wilson Research Fellowship, American Society of Church History, 2019
Praxis Program in Digital Humanities Fellowship, The Scholars’ Lab of the University of Virginia, 2019
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Grants to Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
Research Stipend Award, Rockefeller Archive Center, 2019
Americas Center / Centro de las Américas Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2019
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2018
Summer Research Funding, Department of History of the University of Virginia, 2018
Travel-To-Collections Grant, Smith College, 2017
Filson Fellowship, The Filson Historical Society, 2017
Summer Research Funding, Department of History of the University of Virginia, 2017
Elmer L. Anderson Research Scholarship Award, University of Minnesota, 2016
Women in United Methodist History Writing Award, General Commission on Archives and History of the UMC, 2015
Andrew D. White Senior Essay Prize, Yale History Department, 2014
Barbara Wertheimer Prize, New York Labor History Association, 2014
Richter Summer Fellowship, Davenport College of Yale University, 2013
History of Atlantic Capitalism, Fall 2024
American Culture Seminar, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
American Images, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
American Women’s History, Spring 2023
African Americans and the Construction of America, Fall 2023, Fall 2022,
US History from Colonial to Present, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
Student Success Summit with Anthony Jack, Spring 2024
Teaching Workshop with Linda Nilson, Spring 2023
Student Success Summit with Tia McNair, Spring 2023
American History Since 1865, Summer 2021 (online)
c3Design, Center for Teaching and Learning, Summer 2020
Tomorrow’s Professor Today,” Center for Teaching and Learning, 2019-2021
History of American Methodism, Spring 2015
Madisyn Tyree, “A War on Women’s Bodies: The Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded” (2022)
Host, New Books in History, New Books Network Podcast, 2023-Present.
PhD Plus Fellow, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2020-2022.
Participant, Social Justice and the Curriculum, Digital Pedagogy Lab, Summer 2021
Digital Archiving Assistant, President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation, University of Virginia, 2020.
Participant, Praxis Program Fellowship in Digital Humanities Selection Committee, 2020.
Contributing Author, Scholars’ Lab Blog, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, 2019-2020.
Web Developer and Project Manager, Land and Legacy, Praxis Program, University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab, https://landandlegacy.scholarslab.org, 2019-2020.
Creator and Host, Faith and Race Podcast and Curriculum - Season 1, Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church, Columbia, Missouri
Summer Intern, Greenbrier Historical Society & North House Museum, Lewisburg, West Virginia.
“The Greatest Story: Commercial Networks and Religion in the American Century,” Business History Association, Providence, RI, March 16, 2024.
“‘Fireside Favorites’: Ministry, Minstrelsy, and the Southernaires,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, April 2, 2022.
“‘Education and Religion vs. Commercial Radio’: Rethinking Religion and the 1934 Communications Act,” International Society of Media, Religion and Culture Biennial Conference, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 4, 2020. Unable to deliver, conference cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak.
“Faith Networks: Religion, Radio, and the American System of Broadcasting in the 1930s,” Popular Culture Association National Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 2020. Unable to deliver, conference cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak.
“Definitely a Religious Ad: Daytime Radio and the Redemption of Communications Capitalism,” U.S. Religious Studies and New Histories of Capitalism Conference, Charlottesville, January 31, 2020.
“The Guiding Light of Mass Consumption: Religion and Daytime Radio, 1936-1945,” American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, New York, January 5, 2020.
“Sacred Music as Resistance: Religion and Network Radio in the 1930s,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 7, 2019.
“‘Freedom of the Air’: NBC and its Protestant-Catholic-Jewish Committee, 1926-1939,” Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Religion, Charlottesville, April 12, 2019.
Panelist, “Archival Research with Past PHS Fellows,” Presybterian Historical Society, webinar, November 14, 2022.
Lecturer, “Listening to the Archive: Sound, Metadata, and Digital Humanities,” Washington & Lee University, Lexinton, VA, March 19, 2020. Unable to deliver, talk cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak.
Lecturer, “‘You know the radio is noncontroversial’: Jews, Broadcasting, and the Public Interest,” American Jewish Archive, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 12, 2020.
Invited Respondent, Chapters 2-3 of Faculty Member’s Book Manuscript, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, October 8, 2021.
“Expanding Mainwave Religion: Race, Music, and Citizenship in 1930s Network Radio,” Virginia Colloquium in American Religion, March 24, 2021.
Guest Lecturer, “Religion and Nationalism,” Religion and American Popular Culture, Department of American Studies, University of Virginia, March 8, 2021.
“Land and Legacy,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library, May 5, 2020.
“Guiding Light of Mass Consumption: Religion and Daytime Radio, 1936-1945,” Virginia Colloquium in American Religion, University of Virginia, October 12, 2019.
“Church of the Air: Mainwave Religion and the Sanctification of Mass Media, 1920-1960,” Twentieth-Century Transnational History Workshop, University of Virginia, December 12, 2018.
“Faith in Community: Interracial Discussions and Ecumenical Protestantism, 1945-1960,” Twentieth-Century United States History Workshop, University of Virginia, May 9, 2017.
Invited Panelist for Memory & Identity Panel, Yale History Department’s First Annual Senior Essay Symposium, May 2, 2014.
Colloquium Speaker, Davenport College Mellon Forum for Senior Essays and Projects, January 21, 2014.
Advisory Board Member, Essays in History, an open access journal for emerging historians, University of Virginia, 2022-Present.
Editor, Essays in History, an open access journal for emerging historians, University of Virginia, 2019-2022
Associate Editor, Essays in History, an open access journal for emerging historians, University of Virginia, 2019
Hosted and arranged Eric Martin, “Signs of Faith Against Fascism,” Randolph College, Jan. 25, 2024.
Co-hosted “Teaching about Race and Racism,” Lunch & Learn, Randolph College, Feb 7, 2024.
Committee Member, Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Diversity, Identity, Culture, and Inclusion, 2023-Present
Non-Committee Member who assisted with Job Advertisement revisions, Visting Ainsworth Scholar of American Culture, 2023.
Teacher Education Advisory Committee, 2023-Present
Education Preparatory Program Committee, 2023-Present.
Thayer Lecture Committee, 2023-Present
Interviewer, Let Wisdom Rise Scholarships, Randolph College, 2024.
Co-created “History Day.” Created and facilitated workshop, “Archival Silences in the History of American Slavery.” Randolph College, March 20, 2024.
Social Media Content Manager, American Culture Program Instagram, 2022 - Present
Website Administator, American Culture Program Blog, 2022 - Present
Team Member, Grant Application for Randolph College, Institute on Interfaith Excellence, 2023
Facilitator, Teaching as a Graduate Student, Center for Teaching Excellence, Fall 2020
Participant, Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, 2019-2021
Cohort Representative, Graduate History Student Association, University of Virginia, 2020-2021
Interviewee for National History Day Project, “Christopher Columbus,” Jefferson Forest High School, January 13, 2023.
Interviewee for National History Day Project, “Jazz Age,” Jefferson Forest High School, January 26, 2023.
Interviewee for National History Day Project, “Greensboro Sit-In,” Jefferson Forest High School, February 22, 2023.
Interviewee for National History Day Project, “Jazz Age,” Jefferson Forest High School, February 22, 2023.
Inaugural Chair of Local Elections Committee, Local 2265 of Communications Workers of America, 2022.
Joint-Steering Committtee Member, Local 2265 of Communications Workers of America, 2021-2022.
Co-Presenter, Lessons from Labor History at UVA, United Campus Workers of Virginia, September 7, 2020.
Invited Panelist and Workshop Leader, A Faithful Response to Racial Injustice Conference, Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, April 17-18, 2017.
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
American Society of Church History (ASCH)
American Historical Association (AHA)
American Studies Association (ASA)
National Council on Public History (NCPH)
Business History Association