Ph.D., M.A. History - University of Delaware
M.A. History - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
B.A. History - Colgate University

Science and religion; American intellectual and cultural history; American religious history

Courses: History of Science and Technology; Religion and American History; History of the U.S. I & II; World History I & II

Select Publications:

• Respectably Catholic and Scientific: Evolution and Birth Control Between the World Wars (The Catholic University of America Press, 2021).

• “'What Has Athens to do with New York?' Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Meletios Metaxakis and the 1918 Conference on Unity with the American Episcopal Church."  Anglican and Episcopal History 90: 3 (2021): 223-250.

• "The American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Evolution and the Scopes Trial: Race, Eugenics, and Public Science in the U.S.A." Historical Research 91:251 (2018): 137-159.

• "Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin and the Idea of the Religious Direction of Human Evolution in the Early 1920s," Annals of Science 74:1 (2017): 64-82.

• "Catholic Birth Control? Father John O'Brien, Rhythm, and Progressive American Catholicism in 1930s Contraception Discourse," U.S. Catholic Historian 34:1 (Winter 2016): 53-76.

• "Evolution and Voices of Progressive Catholicism in the Age of the Scopes Trial," Religion and American Culture 26:1 (Winter 2016): 101-137.

• "No Immigrants or Radicals Need Apply: Varieties of Nativism in 1920s America," in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, ed. K. Sibley (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

• "History of Science and Religion Today" [review essay], History: Reviews of New Books 39:2 (April 2011): 37-40.

• "Vaclav Havel" and "Linus Pauling," in The Modern Age, 1900-2000: Biographical Dictionary of Western Culture, ed. J. Nordgren (EBSCO: Literary Reference Center Plus, 2009), 369-370 and 643-645. 

• "Constructing a Catholic Church out of Thin Air: Catholic Hour's Early Years on NBC Radio," American Catholic Studies 118:4 (Winter 2007): 37-67.