Curriculum Vitae

Last updated 06/04/2024

EDUCATION

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

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Randolph College, Assistant Professor of History (2024-Present)

Randolph College, Assistant Professor of History and Ainsworth Scholar in American Culture (2023-2024)

Randolph College, Ainsworth Visiting Assistant Professor of American Culture (2022-2023)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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.

Peer-Reviewed Digital Projects

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).

Book Reviews

Review of Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy by Tennant McWilliams, Journal of American History 111, no. 3 (December 2024): 622-623.

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.

Other Publications

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.

Under Review

“Coloring Sacred Sounds: Broadcasting Racial and Religious Outsiders in Radio’s Network Era,” Religion and American Culture. “Religious Radio,” The Palace of Thundering Gods: A Massively Collaborative Open History of Religion in the United States (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Spirit of Power: Radio, Religion, and the Sound of the American Century”

TEACHING

Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

Instructor of Record

A Life More Abundant (Fall 2024) History of Atlantic Capitalism (Fall 2023) American Culture Seminar (Spring 2024; Spring 2023) American Images (Spring 2024; Spring 2023) American Women’s History (Spring 2025; Spring 2023) African Americans and the Construction of America (Fall 2023; Fall 2022) US History from Colonial to the Present (Fall 2025; Spring 2024; Fall 2022) Senior Capstone: Research (Fall 2022) Senior Capstone: Writing (Spring 2025; Fall 2023; Fall 2022)

Professional Development

American Historical Association Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses (Spring 2025) Student Success Summit with Anthony Jack (Spring 2024) Teaching Workshop with Linda Nilson (Spring 2023). Student Success Summit with Tia McNair (Spring 2023).

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Instructor of Record

American History Since 1865 (Summer 2021-online)

Professional Development

c3Design, Center for Teaching and Learning, Summer 2020 Tomorrow’s Professor Today, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2019-2021

Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO

Co-Instructor

History of American Methodism (Spring 2015)

ADVISING

Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

First-Year Advising (2024-Present) History Major Advising (2025-Present)

Select Undergraduate Senior Capstone Projects

Madisyn Tyree, “A War on Women’s Bodies: The Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded” (2022), Winner of Best Senior Paper Award, Effective Writing and Speaking Board, Randolph College, 2022-2023

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Quillian International Study Abroad Seminar in Sri Lanka, Randolph College, 2025 Ruth Borker Fund for Women’s Studies, Randolph College, 2025 Campus Events Committee Grant, Randolph College, 2025 Professional Development Grant, Randolph College, 2023 Campus Events Committee Grant, Randolph College, 2023 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, 2019, 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

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

PUBLIC AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Host, New Books in History, New Books Network Podcast, 2023.

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.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

“Transformative Travel: Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage to Ceylon and the Making of the US Civil Rights Movement,” Movement Rhizome Interdisciplinary Academic Conference, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, May 26, 2025.

“Forgotten Frequencies: Network Religious Radio and the Rise of Tri-Faith America,” Southeastern American Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 7, 2025.

“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.

INVITED TALKS

Lecturer, “Methodist History and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Wesley Foundation at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 16, 2025.

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, Lexington, 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.

CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS

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.

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

Hosted Events

Hosted Dr. Lindsay Parks Pieper for college-wide lecture, “Sport, Sex, and Surveillance: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports,” April 24, 2025. Hosted Dr. Eric Martin for public lecture, “Signs of Faith Against Fascism,” Randolph College, Jan. 25, 2024. Co-hosted Lunch & Learn, “Teaching about Race and Racism,” Randolph College, Feb 7, 2024. Hosted Lunch & Learn, “American Culture Program,” Randolph College, Oct 31, 2023 Hosted Lunch & Learn, “American Culture Program,” Randolph College, Nov 15, 2022.

Search Committees

Ainsworth Visiting Scholar of American Culture, 2024-2025. Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Diversity, Identity, Culture, and Inclusion, 2023-2024.

Standing Committees

Teacher Education Advisory Committee, 2023-2025. Education Preparatory Program Committee, 2023-2025. Thayer Lecture Committee, 2023-Present; Chair 2024-2025. Multifaith Open Spiritual Atheist Inclusive Council, 2024 - Present.

Ad-Hoc Committees

Pluralism Project Cohort, 2025-Present. #RandolphVotes Initiative, Creator and Chair, 2024-Present. Community Advisory Committee, 2023 On-line Framing Group, 2023

Admissions

Featured speaker, “American Revolution at 250,” Admitted Student Day, April 12, 2025. Featured speaker, “American Revolution at 250,” Admitted Student Day, March 22, 2025. History Day workshop facilitator for “Making History: The Civil Rights. Movement and the Craft of History,” December 11, 2024. Co-created “History Day.” Created and facilitated workshop, “Archival Silences in the History of American Slavery.” Randolph College, March 20, 2024.

Interviewer, Let Wisdom Rise Scholarships, Randolph College, 2024, 2025.

Digital Service

Administrator, #RandolphVotes Blog, 2024 – Present. Co-Account Manager, #RandolphVotes Instagram, 2024 – Present. Updated History Department Website, 2023.

Account Manager, American Culture Program Instagram, 2022 - 2023.

Administator, American Culture Program Blog, 2022 - 2024.

Other

Assisted Ainsworth Search Committee, 2023-2024. Team Member, Grant Application for Randolph College, Institute on Interfaith Excellence, 2023

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Advisory Board Member, Essays in History, an open access journal for emerging historians, University of Virginia, 2022-2023.

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

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

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

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Co-Host and IT Director, Virginia American Association of University Professors, April 27, 2024. Consultant, Local Elections Committee of United Campus Workers of Virginia, Fall 2023. Interviewee for National History Day Project, “Christopher Columbus,” Jefferson Forest High School, January 13, 2023.

Interviewee for National History Day Project, Jefferson Forest High School, Spring 2023. Topics: Jazz Age (2x), Greensboro Sit-In.

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.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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 (BHA)