Scholar, writer, and speaker examining American religion and culture.
Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.
Invited Talks
- “The Rise of Contemporary Christian Nationalism: Mainline Churches vs. Evangelicals in the Struggle Over Christianity and Politics” | St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas, November 2025
- “‘Nothing in Particular’: The Decline of Religious Affiliation in the United States” | St. David’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas, August 2025
- “Haunted Modernity: Encounters with Spirits of the Dead as Empirical” | Virginia Tech, October 2023
Selected Writing
Current Projects
- Book on America’s obsession with Halloween, under contract with McFarland
- Article on “contemporary paranormal belief” for Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
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