Publications

Journal Articles and Chapters

 “An Evangelical Black Panther: The Politics of Race and the Conversion of Eldridge Cleaver,” in Andrew Moore, ed., The Year of the Evangelicals Revisited (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2020), forthcoming.

 “Born Again Black Panther: Race, Respectability, and the Transformation of Eldridge Cleaver,” in Religion & American Culture, forthcoming.

Encyclopedia Articles:

“COINTELPRO: Black Nationalist Hate,” in Douglas M. Charles, ed., The Federal Bureau of Investigation: History, Powers, and Controversies of the FBI (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2021), forthcoming.

“Historical Misuses of Luther,” in Mark A. Lamport, ed., Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

“Reformation in American Memory,” in Mark A. Lamport, ed., Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

“Why the Reformation Matters – To Anglicans,” in Mark A. Lamport, ed., Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

“Why the Reformation Matters – To Roman Catholics,” in Mark A. Lamport, ed., Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

“American Revolution,” in David Head, ed., Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in An Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2017).

“Earl Arnett Seamands,” in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport, eds. Martin E. Marty, forward, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).

“Edwin Lewis,” in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport, eds. Martin E. Marty, forward, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).

“Restrictive Rules of 1808 (Methodist),” in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport, eds. Martin E. Marty, forward, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).

“Richard Harvey Cain,” in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport, eds. Martin E. Marty, forward, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).

“Thomas Vasey,” in George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport, eds. Martin E. Marty, forward, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).

Reviews

Review of Nathan G. Alexander, Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (New York: New York University Press, 2019), in Religious Studies Review, forthcoming.

Review of Terry Lindvall, God on the Big Screen: A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today (New York: New York University Press, 2019), in Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 24: Iss. 1, Article 50 (2020).

Review of Anthony Hatcher, Religion and Media in America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018), in Journal of Southern Religion, forthcoming.

Review of Lon Allison, Billy Graham: An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God (Orleans, MA: Paraclete Press, 2018), in Reading Religion (February 19, 2019).

Review of John Bartram and William Bartram, Travels on the St. Johns River (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2017), in H-Net-Florida (March 2018).

Review of Gilbert L. Voss. A Pioneer Son at Sea: Fishing Tales of Old Florida (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2016), in H-Net-Florida (February, 2017).

Review of Lydia Bean, The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), in Religious Studies Review (2017), forthcoming.

Review of Thomas E. Buckley, Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Statute in Virginia (Charlottesville, VA: Virginia University Press, 2015), in The History Teacher (Volume 50, Number 1, 2016).

Review of Vincent L. Bush, ed. MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), in Journal of Religious History (January, 2017).

Review of Grant Wacker. America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014), in Material Religion 12:1 (2016).

 Review of Brantley W. Gasaway. Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), in Journal of Southern Religion (2015).

Digital Projects

 “Mrs. America: Phyllis Schlafly and American Culture Podcast Series,” a three part podcast series produced and researched as a part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, (2019-2020).

“Mapping ‘Operation: Midnight Ride,” an interactive map prepared as a part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, (2018).

“History of Blue Creek Methodist Society – Blue Creek Cemetery Map-Based Internment Database,” prepared for Grace United Methodist Church, Hosford, Florida (2015).