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Education
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A. in Religion, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Teaching
University of North Florida (2011 – Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
University of North Carolina (2006 - 2011)
Instructor, Religious Studies (2008 - 2011)
Teaching Assistant, Religious Studies (2006 - 2007)
Tutor, Writing Center, (2010 - 2011)
University of Colorado, Religious Studies, (2002 - 2003)
Teaching Assistant
Publications
“Dirt and Morality during Ute Removal” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 88 No. 1, Winter 2019
Ute Land Religion in the American West, University of Nebraska Press, 2017
Review of The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Tracy Neal Leavelle), Western Historical Quarterly, Fall 2013
Review of Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American Religious Landscape, (edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas), Ethnohistory, Fall 2012
“The Meeker Massacre: Religious Identity as Cultural Exchange,” in Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, edited by Max Cacori and Stephanie Pratt (London: Palgrave Press, 2012)
Review of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Tisa Wenger), Ethnohistory, Spring 2010
“Art Blakey” in Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010).
Conference Papers
“The Ritual Economies of Snow Dances in the American West,” presenting at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October, 2021.
“Indian Curses, White Lies, and New Meeting Grounds: Chief Niwot and Settler-Colonial Memories of Dispossession,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Online, October 16, 2020
Participant in Roundtable discussion on Religion in the American West, presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 18, 2019.
“Religious Nones in Boulder, CO,” presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 17, 2018.
“Snake, Rain, and Snow: Dances and the Construction of Whiteness in the American West,” presented at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Oct.19, 2018.
“Dancing Around Walls: Ute Bear Dance and “Real” Religion, 1891-1941,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, October 23, 2015.
“The Ritual of Memory and the Memories of Ritual: The Politics of Sacred Space in the American West,” presented at the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2014.
“Reconciliation and the Perils of Religion: Remembering the Meeker Massacre and Ute Removal,” presented at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 9, 2013.
“Playing Indian: Eastern Utah Religious Borderlands,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 5, 2012.
““Playing Indian”: Defining American Religion Through Ute Land Religion, 1910-1940,” presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 20, 2011.
“Plowing for Progress: American Christianity and the Advancement of Agricultural Science,” presented at the AAR National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 1, 2010.
“Redemption in the American West: Confounding Colonialism through Powwows,” presented at the AAR National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 30, 2010.
“Whose West? Religious Claims to Dirt: Ute Ethnic Cleansing and a Christian Nation,” presented at the WHA, Lake Tahoe, NV, October 15, 2010.
“Christian or Farmer?: Missionaries for Christ and the Plow in Nineteenth-Century American West,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Tucson, AZ, May 21, 2010.
“Ponies, Plows, and Possibilities: Land and Religion in the American Frontier,” AAR National Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 8, 2009.
“The Meeker Massacre: Religious Identity as Cultural Exchange,” presented at the “Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery: Changing Meanings in Early Colonial America” conference, sponsored by the British Museum and the University of Plymouth, London, England, February 18, 2008.
“Beyond the Blackboard: Teaching with the American Religions Timeline” presented at the American Society of Church History National Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 3, 2008.
“A Hard Pill To Swallow: Manifest Destiny and the Mormon Battalion on the California Frontier” presented at the AAR-SBL National Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 18, 2007.
“Josephine and the Utes: Religion, Violence, and Identity on the Western Frontier,” presented at the Florida State University Religion Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, March 15, 2007.
“Towards a Responsible Apocalypse: The Cryptoapocalyptic Discourse of the Nonviolence Movement,” presented at the AAR-SBL National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 22, 2003.
“Commandment Wars: Public Discourse on the Decalogue in Grand Junction, CO,” presented at the AAR-SBL Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, April 8, 2003.
Selected Teaching Development
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Fellow, 2012-2013
Selected Service
University of North Florida
Committee Chair, Religious Studies Paper Prize (2012-Present)
Faculty Advisor, Religious Studies Club (2013-Present)
Member, Religious Studies Steering Committee (2011-Present)
Wiley-Blackwell Press
Co-editor, Religions in the Americas division of Religion Compass (2013-Present)
Manuscript Reviewer (2013)
Religion in the American West Group, American Academy of Religion
Co-Chair (2014-Present)
Blog editor, Religion in the American West (2010-2013)
Professional Membership
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Western Historical Association
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A. in Religion, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Teaching
University of North Florida (2011 – Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
- American Judaism
- Religion and Film
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Religion, Literature, and the Arts in the United States
- American Indian Religions
- Religion and Nature
- Comparative Religions
- Race and Religion in the United States
University of North Carolina (2006 - 2011)
Instructor, Religious Studies (2008 - 2011)
- African American Religious History
- Introduction to Philosophical Approaches to Religion
- Nature, Religion, and the Environment
- Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in the United States
- American Religious History
- Religion, Literature, and the Arts in the United States
- History of Christianity
Teaching Assistant, Religious Studies (2006 - 2007)
- Philosophical Approaches to Religion
- Religions in the United States
- Seminar in Religious Studies
Tutor, Writing Center, (2010 - 2011)
University of Colorado, Religious Studies, (2002 - 2003)
Teaching Assistant
- Religions in Contemporary Society
- Religions in the United States
- Christian Traditions
Publications
“Dirt and Morality during Ute Removal” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 88 No. 1, Winter 2019
Ute Land Religion in the American West, University of Nebraska Press, 2017
Review of The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Tracy Neal Leavelle), Western Historical Quarterly, Fall 2013
Review of Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American Religious Landscape, (edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas), Ethnohistory, Fall 2012
“The Meeker Massacre: Religious Identity as Cultural Exchange,” in Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, edited by Max Cacori and Stephanie Pratt (London: Palgrave Press, 2012)
Review of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Tisa Wenger), Ethnohistory, Spring 2010
“Art Blakey” in Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010).
Conference Papers
“The Ritual Economies of Snow Dances in the American West,” presenting at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October, 2021.
“Indian Curses, White Lies, and New Meeting Grounds: Chief Niwot and Settler-Colonial Memories of Dispossession,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Online, October 16, 2020
Participant in Roundtable discussion on Religion in the American West, presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 18, 2019.
“Religious Nones in Boulder, CO,” presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 17, 2018.
“Snake, Rain, and Snow: Dances and the Construction of Whiteness in the American West,” presented at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Oct.19, 2018.
“Dancing Around Walls: Ute Bear Dance and “Real” Religion, 1891-1941,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, October 23, 2015.
“The Ritual of Memory and the Memories of Ritual: The Politics of Sacred Space in the American West,” presented at the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2014.
“Reconciliation and the Perils of Religion: Remembering the Meeker Massacre and Ute Removal,” presented at the Western Historical Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 9, 2013.
“Playing Indian: Eastern Utah Religious Borderlands,” presented at the WHA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 5, 2012.
““Playing Indian”: Defining American Religion Through Ute Land Religion, 1910-1940,” presented at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 20, 2011.
“Plowing for Progress: American Christianity and the Advancement of Agricultural Science,” presented at the AAR National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 1, 2010.
“Redemption in the American West: Confounding Colonialism through Powwows,” presented at the AAR National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 30, 2010.
“Whose West? Religious Claims to Dirt: Ute Ethnic Cleansing and a Christian Nation,” presented at the WHA, Lake Tahoe, NV, October 15, 2010.
“Christian or Farmer?: Missionaries for Christ and the Plow in Nineteenth-Century American West,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Tucson, AZ, May 21, 2010.
“Ponies, Plows, and Possibilities: Land and Religion in the American Frontier,” AAR National Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 8, 2009.
“The Meeker Massacre: Religious Identity as Cultural Exchange,” presented at the “Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery: Changing Meanings in Early Colonial America” conference, sponsored by the British Museum and the University of Plymouth, London, England, February 18, 2008.
“Beyond the Blackboard: Teaching with the American Religions Timeline” presented at the American Society of Church History National Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 3, 2008.
“A Hard Pill To Swallow: Manifest Destiny and the Mormon Battalion on the California Frontier” presented at the AAR-SBL National Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 18, 2007.
“Josephine and the Utes: Religion, Violence, and Identity on the Western Frontier,” presented at the Florida State University Religion Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, March 15, 2007.
“Towards a Responsible Apocalypse: The Cryptoapocalyptic Discourse of the Nonviolence Movement,” presented at the AAR-SBL National Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 22, 2003.
“Commandment Wars: Public Discourse on the Decalogue in Grand Junction, CO,” presented at the AAR-SBL Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, April 8, 2003.
Selected Teaching Development
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Fellow, 2012-2013
Selected Service
University of North Florida
Committee Chair, Religious Studies Paper Prize (2012-Present)
Faculty Advisor, Religious Studies Club (2013-Present)
Member, Religious Studies Steering Committee (2011-Present)
Wiley-Blackwell Press
Co-editor, Religions in the Americas division of Religion Compass (2013-Present)
Manuscript Reviewer (2013)
Religion in the American West Group, American Academy of Religion
Co-Chair (2014-Present)
Blog editor, Religion in the American West (2010-2013)
Professional Membership
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Western Historical Association