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EDUCATION |
| Stanford University |
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Ph.D. in United States History |
2005 |
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M.A. in United States History |
2000 |
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Doctoral Committee: |
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Co-Advisor: Professor George M. Fredrickson |
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Co-Advisor: Professor Jack N. Rakove |
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Reader: Professor Jay Fliegelman |
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Research Emphasis: |
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Intellectual and Religious History of British North America, 1607-1865 |
| Brigham Young University |
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B.A. in History, Summa Cum Laude, with University Honors |
1998 |
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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY |
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In Progress |
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Book Manuscript: Borders of Canon: On the Thresholds of History, Heresy and Holy Writ in Early America (under review at Oxford University Press; one reader review received thus far, highly positive) |
Refereed Articles |
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“Sovereign Silences and the Voice of War in the American Abolition of Slavery,”
Law and History Review (September 2008): 571-94.
“Anne Hutchinson to Horace Bushnell: A New Take on the New England
Sequence,” The New England Quarterly (June 2005): 163-201. |
| Other Publications |
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Encyclopedia Article |
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“The Constitution, the Court and American Civil Religion,” Encyclopedia of the
Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Macmillan, 2008). |
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Review Essays |
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“‘A Mixed Construction of Subversion and Conversion’: The Complicated Lives
and Times of Religious Women,” Gender and History (forthcoming) |
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“Politics as Salvation and History as Prophecy: A Review of Jeremiah Purdy’s
Tolerable Anarchy, Reviews in American History (forthcoming) |
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Book Review |
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Review of James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American
History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) in The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 35 (June 2004): 145-46.
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Presentations |
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"Covenants and Cataclysm: A Religious Interpretation of the American Civil War
and its Slavery Amendments," Conference on Law, History and War, University of
California at Berkeley, February, 2007. (Invited Speaker) |
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“A Clash of Canons in American Christianity,” At Home in Academia, Hebrew Union
College, January 2006. (Invited Speaker) |
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“Character and Communication: Seeking God and Knowledge in Antebellum
America,” Religious History Seminar, Newberry Library, November 2003. |
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Commentator: Alan Taylor, “John Graves Simcoe’s Counterrevolution,” Stanford
Humanities Center Graduate Workshop on Revolution and Enlightenment, 1660-
1830, October 2003. (Invited Commentator) |
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“Trading Love and Knowledge: An Early National Engagement with Providence,"
Fellows’ Conference, Center for Religion and American Life, Yale University,
May 2003. |
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“The Founding and the Future,” Spaces and Places Conference, McNeil Center for
Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 2001.
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“Slavery and the Oracular: Living with Progress, Paranoia, and Providence in the
Early Republic,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Johns
Hopkins University, July 2001. |
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“Special Providences: Cosmology and Identity in the Early Republic,” Society for
Historians of the Early American Republic, SUNY Buffalo, July 2000. (Panel
Organizer)
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HONORS AND FELLLOWSHIPS |
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David M. Potter Fellowship, Department of History,
Stanford University |
2004-2005 |
| Junior Fellowship, Center for Religion and American Life,
Yale University |
2002-2003 |
| Whiting Fellowship, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation |
2001-2002 |
| CBS Bicentennial Narrators Scholarship, Stanford University |
1999-2001 |
| Excellence in First-Time Teaching Award, Department of History, Stanford Univ |
2000 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson Found |
1998-1999 |
| Co-Valedictorian, Brigham Young University |
1998 |
| The Outstanding Undergraduate of History, 1998, Brigham Young University |
1997-1998 |
| The Outstanding Undergraduate of History, 1997, Brigham Young University |
1996-1997 |
| Smith Institute Fellow, Brigham Young University |
1997 |
| Trustees Scholarship, Brigham Young University |
1994-1998 |
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EMPLOYMENT AND COURSE TAUGHT |
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| University of Nevada Las Vegas |
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Assistant Professor of History 2005-Present |
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History 101: U.S. History to 1865 |
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History 251: Historical Investigation |
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History 411/611: Colonial America |
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History 412/612: Revolution and Early Republic |
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History 424/624: Religion in American Culture, Puritans to Present |
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History 724: Colloquium in Early American Intellectual/Cultural History |
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History 725: Research Seminar in American Intellectual/Cultural History |
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Independent Study (Grad and Undergrad): American Religious History to 1865 |
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College Committee Member |
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College Forum, 2008-present |
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Departmental Committee Member |
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Candidate Search Committees |
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Assistant Professor in Atlantic World History, 2005-6 |
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Full Professor in Jewish History, 2007-8 |
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Strategic Planning, 2006-7 |
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Library, 2005-7 |
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Department Travel, 2007-8 |
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Department Awards, 2008-9 |
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Departmental Committee Chair |
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Library 2006-07 |
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Faculty Co-Advisor |
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Phi Alpha Theta: History Honor Society, 2007-Present |
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Campus and Community Outreach |
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Interview: “Religion in Las Vegas,” Channel 13 Action News (ABC) |
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Interview: “The First Thanksgiving,” KUNV “Our Metropolis” |
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Speech: “Women of the Revolution,” Nevada Chapter, Dames of Colonial
America |
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Speech: “The Irreverence of the Founders,” We the People Project |
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Speech: “The American Revolution,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute |
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Speech: “Women of the Revolution,” Las Vegas Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution |
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Speech: “English Heritages, American Experiences,” Arizona-Nevada Chapter
of the Jamestown Society |
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Speech: “Founding Parents,” Constitution Day, 2006, UNLV |
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College Marshall, University Commencement |
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Department Representative, University Major Fair (2x) |
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Dissertation Committees |
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William Belk, “The Deliberate Sense of Willmoore Kendall and
the Making of Modern American Conservatism” |
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Ed Weir, “The Whiter Lotus: Materialism, Individualism, and Eastern
Thought in Modern America” |
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Aaron McArthur, “Recovered From a Contracting Zion: The Evolving Significance of the Las Vegas Mormon Fort; St. Thomas, Nevada; and Pipe Spring, Arizona” |
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Lance Muckey, “Governing the Dead: Law, Regulation, and American
Cemeteries, 1846-1929” |
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Andrew McArthur (Education) |
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Thesis Committees |
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Rich Johnson, TBA, Early American Religion |
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Jordan Watkins, TBA, 19th Century Religion/Travel Narratives |
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Ea Madrigal, “The Lost Promise of Heaven: Religion and Gender in Children’s Literature, 1780-1830”
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Blake Sherer, “The Battle over Democratic Principles in the Central African Federation 1953-1963” |
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Mike Spurr, “‘The Latent Enmity of Georgia': Sherman's March and its
Effect upon the Social Division of Georgia” |
Stanford University |
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Lecturer |
2003-2004 |
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History 165a: Colonial and Revolutionary America |
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History 274: American Religious History: Anne Hutchinson to Sojourner Truth
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History 274a: Ideas and Ideologies in America, 1600-1870 |
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Instructor Winter 2001 |
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History 29s, Politics, Religion, and Identity in the Early American Republic |
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Honors Theses Tutor |
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Co-Director of Pedagogical Training |
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Committee Member |
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Graduate Admissions |
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Alliance for Lifelong Learning –
An Online Consortium of Oxford, Stanford and Yale
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Online Instructor |
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History 070, The US Constitution: What the Founding Fathers Meant |
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| Brigham Young University |
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History Department Representative to the College Council |
1997-1998 |
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University Writing Fellow |
1997-1998 |
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RELATED EXPERIENCE |
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Historical Consultant to the Oneida Nation of Indians in Oneida v. State of New York,
1999-present. |
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Assistant to David M. Kennedy on The Americans (New York: Viking, forthcoming); American Pageant (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005); and American Spirit (New
York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005). |
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Assistant to George M. Fredrickson on Racism: A Short History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002); and America Past and Present (New York: Longman, 2002). |
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Summer Program Coordinator, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2001-
2002. |
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Coordinator, Summer Seminar Series, Program in American Studies, Stanford University, 2002. |
