Specializes in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history, with an emphasis on the moral/intellectual debates surrounding enslavement.
Expertise: United States History; Southern History; Religious History.
Research Interests
- American intellectual, cultural, and religious history
- Changing conceptions of sin, wrongdoing, and moral responsibility
- American slavery debate
- The history of morality and humanitarianism
Current Projects
- I am working on a book on changing conceptions of sin, wrongdoing, and moral responsibility in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American moral thought.
- “The Sins of Slaves and the Slaves of Sin: Toward a History of Moral Agency” for The Worlds of American Intellectual History.
