Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
Fellowships & Awards
2018: Visiting Fellow, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University
2017: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, “Transcendentalism and Social Reform,” Concord, MA
2014-2016: Kinder Postdoctoral Fellow, Forum on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri
2015: Course Development Grant, University of Missouri
2013: Exchange Fellow, American Political History Institute, Boston Univeristy
2013: J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence, Mormon History Association (one of three annual article awards)
2013: Best Graduate Paper Award, Mormon History Association
2012-2013: Hugh Nibley Fellowship, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University
2012: Seminar Participant, “Union Race, and Nation: Creating the Federal Republic, 1776-1801,” Institute for Constitutional History, New-York Historical Society (Led by Peter S. Onuf and Annette Gordon-Reed)
2012: Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
2012: Teaching Fellowship, Religion Department, Brigham Young University
2011-2012: Santander Bursary Scholarship, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
2011: Master’s Thesis Distinction, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
2011: J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence, Mormon History Association
2011: New Voices Award, Dialogue Foundation (awarded for excellence by a junior scholar)
2010: Master’s Degree Distinction, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
2010: Best Postgraduate Paper, Scottish Association for the Study of America
2009: Research Fellow, “Parley and Orson Pratt and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Thought,” Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University (Under the direction of Terryl Givens, Matthew Grow, and the supervision of Richard Bushman)
2018: Visiting Fellow, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University