Education | Publications | Presentations | Research Awards
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Academic Position
Assistant Professor of American Religions
Department of Philosophy and Religion,
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Education
Duke University, PhD (2018)
- Major: American Religion
- Minors: American Islam; Art, Art History, & Visual Studies
- Dissertation: “Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic”
Duke University, MA (2012)
- Major: Religious Studies
University of North Carolina Wilmington, BA (2010)
- Summa Cum Laude
- University Honors and Departmental Honors from the Honors College
- Majors: Philosophy and Religion; Communication Studies
- Minors: Digital Arts; Spanish
Publications
Under Consideration
- “‘A Sacred Relic Kept’: Protestant Relics and the ‘Good Death’ Experience in Nineteenth-Century America,” under review with the Body and Religion.
- “Edwards on the Conversion of Infants and Children,” under review for The Miscellanies, Volume 2.
Referred Journal Articles
- “‘How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions’: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War,” Material Religion, forthcoming May 2022.
- “‘Sacred Relics To-morrow’: The Presence of Protestant Relics in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” Ohio Valley History 20, no. 4 (December 2020): 8-32.
- “Mary Lyman’s Mourning Piece,” Object Narrative, in Conversations: An Online Journal of the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (now called MAVCOR Journal) (2014).
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- “The Frontiers of Immortality,” in Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, eds. Diana Walsh-Pasulka and Michael Bess (Macmillan Reference USA, 2018) 189-199.
- “Black Muslims, White Jesus: Destroying Racial Images of God with CRAID and W.D. Muhammad,” in New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam, eds. Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg (New York: Routledge, 2017), 190-217.
Encyclopedia Articles
- Jamie L. Brummitt and A.T. Coates, “Christianity and the Visual Arts,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, eds. Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016), 2410-2419.
- “Devotional Art,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, eds. Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016), 707.
- “Sarah Josepha Bell Hale,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, eds. Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016), 1031-1032.
- “Interior Decoration,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, eds. Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016), 1198-1199.
- “Memorial Movement,” in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, eds. Mark A. Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016), 1484-1485.
- “Lourdes,” in Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016), 238-241.
- “Funerary Inscriptions: Modern Europe and America,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 9, (Boston: De Gruyter, 2014), 847-849.
Academic Blog Posts
- “George Washington’s Mausoleum: Congressional Debates Over the Work of Monuments,” The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History. October 2017.
Book Reviews
- Review of Justin T. Clark, City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018) for the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) Reading Religion, August 2018.
Presentations
- “‘A Sacred Relic Kept’: Protestant Relics and the ‘Good Death’ Experience in Nineteenth-Century America.” Presented on the panel “Death and Domesticity: Dying, Death & Corpses in the Home” sponsored by the Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). San Francisco, CA. November 2019.
- “‘Papa, Had He Hair?’: Collecting George Washington’s Relics as Religious and Political Objects of the American Republic.” Presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). Cleveland, Ohio, July 2018.
- “‘Invaluable Relique[s] of the Hero and the Patriot’: Mourning for George Washington and the Forging of a Nation.” Presented at the “Sacred Objects in the New Nation” panel of the “Material Culture, Religion, and Politics in Early America” series at the Society of Early Americanists. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1-4, 2018.
- “‘All this Veneration of the Book’: The Bible as a Bad Object, Weapon, and Relic in Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism.” Presented at the “Protestantism and the Materiality of Texts Conference” sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School, as well as the Duke Graduate Program in Religion, the Barney Jones Endowment of the Duke Department of Religious Studies, the Princeton Graduate School, and the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. April 22, 2017.
- “Breaking the Good Book: The Bible as an Immoral Material Text in Nineteenth-Century America.” Presented at the “Early American Material Texts Conference” sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. May 25-27, 2016.
- “From Mourning Embroideries to Family Bible Records: The Rise of Gendered Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Religion.” Presented at the conference “Family and Genealogy in the Study of Religion.” Brown University, Providence, RI. March 19, 2016.
Research Awards
- 2020 – Summer Research Travel Award from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina Wilmington (postponed due to COVID-19).
- 2018 – Summer Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
- 2018 – Conference Travel Award to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Early Americanists from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion.
- 2017 – Filson Fellowship from the Filson Historical Society.
- 2017 Amanda and Greg Gregory Research Fellowship from the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
- 2017 – Anthony N. B. and Beatrice W. B. Garvan Research Fellowship in American Material Culture from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- 2016-2017 – New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellowship Recipient
- 2016 – Research Fellowship from Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
- 2016 – Domestic Dissertation Travel Award from Duke University’s Graduate School
- 2016 – Gurney Harriss Kearns Summer Research Fellowship from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion
- 2016 – Conference Travel Award to the Early American Material Text Conference from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion and Graduate School
- 2016 – Conference Travel Award to Brown University from Duke’s Graduate Program in Religion and Graduate School
- 2015 – Gurney Harriss Kearns Summer Research Fellowship from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion
- 2014 – Religion in North Carolina Digital Collections Mini-Grant Recipient funded by Duke University, Wake Forest, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
- 2014 – Gurney Harriss Kearns Summer Research Fellowship from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion
- 2014 Nathan J. Perilman Summer Research Stipend from Duke University’s Center for Jewish Studies
- 2014 – Gurney Harriss Kearns Mini-Grant Recipient for Conference Travel from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion
- 2013 – Gurney Harriss Kearns Summer Research Fellowship from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Religion