Expertise

American religious history; the history of Christianity; the cultural role of scriptures and scriptural interpretation; the transatlantic Enlightenment and its legacies; the career of perennially controversial doctrines (predestination, providence); Catholic-Protestant relations; religion, weather, and climate change; the history of the book in colonial British America; Mormonism and American culture.

Past Affiliations

Lecturer, American Religious History

Lecturer, American Religious History, Yale Divinity School, Yale University (past)

Assistant Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University (past)

Chair, Department of Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University (past)

Affiliate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliate Associate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliate Faculty, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Communities
North American Studies, Religious Studies
Degrees
PhD, Princeton University, American Religious History, 1998
MA, Princeton University, American Religious History, 1995
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Religious Studies, 1993
Keywords
comparative religion
Honors

Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003-2003

In Accordance with Scriptures, featured in 'One Disputed Word Helped Create the Crowded Bible Market (by Richard N. Ostling, Associated Press), 2000

Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History (for In Discirdance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible), 1999

Dissertation Fellowship, The Louisville Institute, 1997-1998

Mrs. Giles Whiting Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities, 1996-1997

Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of American Religion (Princeton University), 1994-1996

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1993-1994

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Summer Fellowship, Herder-Institut (Universitat Leipzig), 1993

Bernard Boyd Memorial Fellowship, Department of Religious Studies (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1993

Associations
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
American Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
Society of Early Americanists