Associate Professor
J. F. Rowny Chair in Religion and SocietyDepartment of Religious Studies
About
Specialization:
My work focuses on intersections of religion, settlement policy, technology, and popular culture in the long nineteenth century (c. 1780-1920). I use case studies from the contested U.S. frontier, and from various new religious movements, to explore how people in those contexts debated and defined each key term in “American religious history”: American, religious, and history.