Education

• Malone University, Canton, OH, BA
• Baylor University, Waco, TX, MA
• University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, PhD

Research

• Encyclopedia entry on “Katharine Drexel,” in American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming)
• Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• “‘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)
• “Damp Dungeons and Happy Homes: Anti-Catholic Propaganda, Domesticity, and the American Family Ideal, 1830-1860,” American Historical Association, Denver, CO, 2017 

Awards

• Nomination for Postdoctoral Teaching Award, University of Missouri, 2018
• Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2014
• SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early Republic) Graduate Travel Award, 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

Service

Conducted annual assessment of History majors at USFSM, reviewing student research papers and in-class essays