Education

• University of Virginia: Ph.D. in Religious Studies (anticipated 2027)
  • Graduate Certificate in American Studies
• Yale Divinity School: M.A.R., History of Christianity (2022)
• Brigham Young University: BA, American Studies (2018)

Research Interests

• American Religious History
• Mormon Studies
• American Studies
• Visual & Material Culture

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• "Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 57, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 42-83.
• "Mormon-American Nationalism and the Religiopolitical Art of Jon McNaughton," Journal of Mormon History 50, no. 2 (2024): 43-77.
• “‘I Walked Because I Wanted To:’ National and Religious Identities of Women and the Mormon Battalion,” Latter-day Saint Historical Studies 21, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 33–54.  
• “Painting Americanness into Existence: Trumbull’s Rotunda Paintings and American Identity,” Americana (BYU), (Winter 2019): 15–29.  

Presentations

• “Pure Revelations and Mormon-American Conspirituality,” Mormon History Association, Kirtland, Ohio, June 2024.
• “Black Agency and 1960s Mormonism,” Mormon Studies Society Conference, Yale Divinity School, March 2, 2024.
• “`The Lord Had it Fixed Up for Me to Become a Mormon:’ Carey C. Bowles’ Religious Citizenship within 1960s Mormonism,” Mormonism in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference, University of Virginia, October 14, 2023.
• “A Latter-day Saint Exploration of Institutional Repentance for Anti-Black Racism,” Community & Critique Workshop, Forum on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia, October 5, 2023.
• "'The Lord’s Home Base:' 1970s Mormon-American Nationalist Conceptions of Religio-State Sovereignty," Mormon History Association, Rochester, New York, June 2023.
• “A Corporeal and Divine Constitution: The NCCS Pocket Constitution and its Radical Conservative Mormon Roots,” Mormon History Association, Logan, Utah, June 2022. 
• “The 1976 Bicentennial and the Reiteration of American Latter-day Saint Identity,” 20th Century U.S. Political and Social History Student Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2022. 
• “Adam-ondi-Ahman in Latter-day Saint Tourism & Pilgrimage,” Faith and Knowledge Conference, University of Virginia (Zoom), January 2021. 
• “’Let the Son Go’: Religious and National Identity of the Women of the Mormon Battalion,” Mormon History Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2019. 

Academic Awards and Grants

• “Best Unpublished Paper,” for “`The Lord Had it Fixed Up for Me to Become a Mormon:’ Carey C. Bowles’ Religious Citizenship within 1960s Mormonism.” Mormon History Association, June 2024.
• Domestic Young Scholar Research Grant, Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, September 2023.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant-REL2650 Religion, Ethics, and Healthcare, University of Virginia, Spring 2024.
• Teaching Assistant-RELC1220 New Testament and Early Christianity, University of Virginia, Fall 2023.

Professional Experience

• LDS Church History Department Salt Lake City, UT and New Haven, CT. Sep. 2018–Jan 2023.  
  • Research Assistant and Contract Historian. Sep. 2018—Jan. 2023
  • Project Manager for The Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells. Jun. 2021–Dec. 2022 
  • Academic Intern for the Joseph Smith Papers. Jan. 2018–May 2018

Professional Memberships 

• Mormon History Association, 2018-Present.