Area of Interest:
19th and 20th century American women’s history and the intersection of gender,
religion, and popular culture.
Education
Malone University, Canton, OH, BA
Baylor University, Waco, TX, MA
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, PhD
Research
Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
“Think Pink: How Mary Kay Built an Empire on Lipstick and Applause,” USFSM, Research
Pecha Kucha (April 2019)
Encyclopedia entry on “Katharine Drexel,” in American Religious History: Belief and
Society through Time (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming)
“‘Are You Allowed to Read the Bible in a Convent?’: Protestant Perspectives on the
Catholic Approach to Scripture in Convent Narratives, 1830-1860.” U.S. Catholic Historian
31, no. 3 (Summer 2013)
Awards
American Society of Church History Book Prize Nomination for the Frank S. and Elizabeth
D. Brewer Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the History of Christianity by a First-Time
Author, 2019.
Nomination for Postdoctoral Teaching Award, University of Missouri, 2018
Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2014
Rome Seminar Scholarship and Stipend, University of Notre Dame, 2014
Donald K. Anderson Teaching Assistant Award, University of Missouri, 2013
Teaching
American History from 1877
American History to 1877
Research and Methods in History
United States History, 1914-1945
American History through Literature, 1865-1920
Women and Politics in America
History of Diversity in the US
Religion in American History
US, 1877-1914
Service
Conducted annual assessment of History majors at USFSM, reviewing student research
papers and in-class essays
Voting member of Academic Regulations Committee (ARC)
Collaborator on American History dual enrollment program
