Rank:

Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies

Address:

Department of History  (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Education:

• Ph.D.  UC Berkeley, 2005
• B.A.    Vanderbilt University, 1997
  

Publications: 

Books

• Tri-Faith America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Helped America Realize Its Protestant Promise (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• HIST: A U.S. History Primer (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2010).
  
  

• "Everywhere and Nowhere: Religion in the Historiography of the Modern America," The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (June 2009, forthcoming).
• "Godlessness and the Scopes Trial," in Charles T. Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, eds., Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 137-53.
• "The FEPC and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s," Labor History (February 2008), 71-92.
• "'Favoritism Cannot be Tolerated': Challenging de facto Protestantism in America's Public Schools and Advocating a Neutral State" American Quarterly (September 2007), pp. 565-591.
• "Religion as Identity in Postwar America: The Story of the Last Serious Attempt to Put a Question on Religion in the U.S. Census," Journal of American History (September 2006), pp. 359-84 (highlighted as a "notable article" in The Wilson Quarterly [Winter 2007], pp. 82-83).
  

• "Citizens, Subjects, and In Between: What Does Citizenship Mean in the USA?," The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Fall 2008).
• "A Liberal Response to the Problem of Pluralism," a review of Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism, H-Ideas, the H-Net list-serve for Intellectual History (February 2007)
• "Secularism: A Bibliographic Essay," The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Spring and Summer 2006), pp. 170-77.
• "Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now," First Things: The Journal of Religion and Public Life (January 2006), pp. 23-27.
• "Democracy, Catholic-style," a review of Jay P. Corrin, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy, H-Catholic, the H-Net list-serve for the history of Catholicism (February 2004).
  
  

Honors, Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships: 

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture:  2005-07
• Selected to be the Graduate Speaker at 2005 History Department Convocation
• Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship: 2004–05 
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship:   2000–04
• Jacob K. Javits Travel Award:   2002, 2003, 2004
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2001-2002
• Margaret E. Byrne Fellowship:   1999–2000
• Vanderbilt University Provost’s Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research:  1997
• Vanderbilt University Student Research Fellow:  1996
• Tennessee Higher Education Commission’s Community Service Award:  1996

Department of History