Education

• University of Virginia – PhD in religious studies (in progress)
• Princeton Theological Seminary – MTS in history and ecumenics (2023)
• Western Michigan University – MA in medieval studies (2020)
• Calvin University – BA in music and English literature (2018)

Research Interests

American religious and cultural history, religion and the Walt Disney Company, medievalism

Publications

• Religious biography of Walt Disney, under contract with Eerdmans for the Library of Religious Biography series
• Co-edited volume on medievalism in Disney media, in preparation with Brepols for the Reinterpreting the Middle Ages series
• Review of The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age by Justine Esta Ellis, Reading Religion, June 2024
• “Singing With the Chthulucene: More-than-Human Music in Theology and Worship,” Doxology 33, no. 3, fall 2022
• “Speculative Mythology: Tolkien’s Adaptation of the Devil and Winter in Old English Poetry,” Tolkien Studies 18, fall 2021
• “The Lament of the Disney Dad: What White Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World,” Religion Dispatches, May 5, 2021