2002-2007
Instructor of Religious Studies, Kirkwood Community College

2002 - 2007
Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa 1999-2000
Teaching Assistant, Trinity College of Arts and SciencesPublications:

Articles:                       
“John Okely, Moravian Strategy, and the ‘Tennentist’ Response in the Delaware Valley, 1742-1743” Journal of Moravian History (Forthcoming).

“Moravian Itinerants and Colonial Mennonites: Continuing the Story” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (Forthcoming).

“The Origins of Calvary Mennonite Church, Souderton, Pennsylvania” Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania Quarterly (Spring 2002).

“Fundamentalism, Evangelicalism and Religious Dissent in the Lancaster and Franconia Mennonite Conferences” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (July and October 2001).

Reviews:

Review of Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts, eds: J. Denny Weaver and Gerald Biesecker Mast in Fides et Historia, (2005).
Review of New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752 - 1817, by John R. Fitzmier in Fides et Historia (fall 2001).
             
           
Select Presentations and Conferences:

“Anglo-Moravians and ‘Tennentist’ Propaganda: The Nature of Moravian-New Light Relations in the Delaware Valley, 1741-1748,” Pietist Studies Group in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2008.

“Lessons in Liminality: Graduate School as Rite of Passage,” Plenary Session, Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, September 2006.

“‘How Can this Justly be Called a Catechism?’ Religious Instruction, Confessional Identity and Moravian Itinerants in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies,” Self, Community, World: Liberal Arts and Moravian Education, international conference meeting, Moravian College, April 2006.

“The Irregular career of Pennsylvania Minister Jacob Lischy,” Midwest Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion, April 2005.“Piety and Ecumenism in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2004.

Academic Service and Professional Development:
Board Member and Graduate Student Representative, Conference on Faith and History, 2005-2008
Round Table Participant, “The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century,” Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, September 2006
Session Moderator, “Those Shifting Sands of Historiography,” Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, September 2006German Script Course (Paleography), Moravian Archives, June 2005Teaching Assistant Coordinator, University of Iowa, Fall 2004

Awards and Fellowships:
Annual Assistantships in Religious Studies, University of Iowa, 2002 – 2007
Graduate Fellowship in Religious Studies, University of Iowa, 2001
Professor T.B. Madsen Thesis Award, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2000

Membership: