EDUCATION 

2003 Ph.D., Phi Beta Kappa, American History
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dissertation: "The Fire Spreads: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements"
Chair: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Committee Members: Grant Wacker, Duke University; W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina; David G. Hackett, University of Florida; John Sommerville, University of Florida 

1998 Master of Arts, History 
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Graduated summa cum laude

1998 Master of Arts, Theological Studies 
Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO 
Graduated magna cum laude 

1995 Bachelor of Arts, History 
MidAmerica Nazarene College, Olathe, KS
Graduated magna cum laude 

Late 19th and early 20th Century US History, Cultural History, American Religious History, the Populist Movement, Historical Theology, Gender, American Popular Music

Associate Professor of History, Eastern Nazarene College (2008-)

Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Nazarene College (2004-2008)

See course web sites

Editor, Historically Speaking (2009-)

Associate editor, Historically Speaking (2005-2008)

University of Florida, History Department, Adjunct Professor (Spring-Summer 2004)

US History to 1877, US History Since 1877

University of Florida, History Department, Teaching Associate

US History Since 1877 (Fall 2003)

Santa Fe Community College, History Department, Adjunct

US History Since 1877 (Fall 2003)

University of Florida, History Department, Teaching Assistant 

US History to 1877 (Spring 2001) 
America in Vietnam (Fall 2000) 
Western Civilization, Middle Ages to the 18th Century (Spring 2000) 
US History Since 1877 (Fall 1999))

Emporia State University, Department of Social Sciences, Teaching Assistant

World Civilization I (Fall 1995, Spring 1996)
World Civilization II (Fall 1995, Spring 1996)

The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Peer-Reviewed

“The Holiness/Pentecostal/Charismatic Extension of the Wesleyan Tradition,” in Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Sam Jones' Own Book, 1886. With a new introduction by Randall J. Stephens. Southern Classics Series (University of South Carolina Press, 2009).

"'Ohio villains' and ‘pretenders to new revelations': Wesleyan Abolitionists in North Carolina and Virginia, 1847-1857," in a Festschrift for Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Forthcoming, University Press of Florida).

"'There is Magic in Print': The Holiness Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism,” in Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Southern Religion and Culture (University of Kentucky Press 2008).

"Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect" in Interpreting Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future (Forthcoming, University of Alabama Press 2008).

"'There is Magic in Print': The Holiness-Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism," Journal of Southern Religion 5 (2002). 

"The Convergence of Populism, Religion, and the Holiness-Pentecostal Movements: A Review of the Historical Literature," Fides et Historia 32, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2000): 51-64. 

Not Peer-Reviewed

“Listening to Reason: Classical Music in the 19th Century,” with Delvyn Case, Books and Culture (Forthcoming).

"Devout Racism" a book review essay, Christian Century, 10 March 2009.

"What does Azusa have to do with Washington?" Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere, 29 September 2008.

"Johnny Cash's Very American Recordings" a review of Rodney Clapp, Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of the Nation (John Knox, 2008) in Christianity Today, May 29, 2008.

“Pentecost for the Southland,” Historically Speaking (Jan/Feb 2008).

"Hidden Under a Bushel: Sufjan Stevens and the Problem of Christian Music," with Delvyn Case, Books and Culture (Nov/Dec 2006).

"Tell about the South: The 2005 Conference of the St. George Tucker Society," Historically Speaking (Sept/Oct 2005).

"Assessing the Roots of American Pentecostalism: A Historiographic Essay," The American Religious Experience (April 2000).

"Beyond the Niebuhrs: A Conversation with Robert Orsi on Recent Trends in American Religious History," Historically Speaking (July/August 2006).

"Full Gospel Churches and Murder Ballads: An Interview with Steve Haisman on Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus," The Journal of Southern Religion, vol. 9 (2006).

"An Interview with Philip L. Fradkin on Natural Disasters and the Great Quake of 1906," Historically Speaking (Nov/Dec 2005).

John M. Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915, Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming)

"Irving Lowery" and "W. E. Fuller," in African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2008). 

"Assemblies of God," in Mississippi Encyclopedia, Charles Reagan Wilson et al., eds. (Forthcoming, University Press of Mississippi).

"'Confess Your Faults One to Another': Religion and Reform in the Antebellum Era," a review of Michael P. Young's Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement, H-SHEAR (December 2007).

Joe Creech, Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution, Journal of Peasant Studies 34:2 (2007).

R. G. Robins, A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture (Forthcoming).

"Christian and Missionary Alliance," "Jones, Charles Price," and "Fire-Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas," in The Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Revised Edition, eds. Samuel Hill and Charles H. Lippy (June 2005, Mercer University Press).

Tona J. Hangen, Redeeming the Dial: Radio Religion, and Popular Culture in America, Gulf South Historical Review (Spring 2005).

Douglas Carl Abrams, "Conformed to this World." Review of Douglas Carl Abrams, Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940, H-South (September 2004).

Deborah Vansau McCauley, Laura A. Porter, and Patricia Parker Brunner, Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative, Religious Studies Review.

"More or Less than Conquerors: The Rise of Southern Gospel." Review of James R. Goff, Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel on H-South (August 2002).

Lillian Taiz, Hallelujah Lads and Lassies: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930, Religious Studies Review (July 2002).

Daniel W. Stowell, Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877, Fides Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2002).

Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald, The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith, Southern Historian (Spring 2002).

Barry W. Hamilton, William Baxter Godbey: Itinerant Apostle of the Holiness Movement, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Autumn 2001).

Briane Turley, A Wheel within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association, Fides Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2001).

Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925, Fides Et Historia (Winter/Spring 2000).

2010 Invited presenter, "Teaching American Religious History," Boston College Conference on the History of Religion (March 2010).

2010 Organizer and presenter, "American Religious Historians Online: A Roundtable," American Historical Association, San Diego, CA (January 2010).

2009 Invited presenter, “‘A great many theologians’: Premillennial Authorities and Modern American Evangelicalism,” Columbia University’s Religion in America Seminar (November 2009).

2009 Invited presenter, "The 'New' Evangelical History? A Roundtable," American Academy of Religion, Montréal, Canada (November 2009).

2009 Invited lecturer, “Race, Rock & Religion,” part of the Post War Years, Cold War Fears Program & Exhibit Series, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, MA (October 2009).

2009 Invited commentator, "Ellen White as Denomination Builder," Ellen White: American Prophet. A Working Conference and Book, Portland, ME (October 2009).

2009 Organizer and presenter, “Conservative Evangelical Experts: A Roundtable,” with Karl Giberson, Jon Roberts, and James Wallace, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 Years Later, Gordon College, Wenham, MA (October 2009).

2009 “‘And Smile to See a Burning World’: Premillennial Authorities and Modern American Evangelicalism,” The Boston-Area American Religious History Group, Boston University (September 2009).

2009 Organizer and commentator for "Religion in the South before 1865," The St. George Tucker Society, Augusta, GA (August 2009).

2008 "The Myth of Christian America and Conservative Evangelical History," Duke Divinity School (November 2008).

2008 Invited lecturer, “The Parallel Culture of American Evangelicalism,” Bentley College (October 2008).

2008 "We Hold These Truths: The Christian Origins Myth and Conservative Evangelicalism," New England American Studies Association, Yale University (September 2008).

2008  "The Politics of Apocalypse: The Politicization of American Pentecostals," Policy History Conference, St. Louis, MO (May 2008).

2008 Chair, "The Politics of Civil Rights History," the Historical Society’s 2008 Conference: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (June 2008).

2008 Chair, "Literary History," the Historical Society’s 2008 Conference: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History, Johns Hopkins University (June 2008).

2008 Invited lecturer, "Pentecostalism and American Religious History," Bentley College (March 2008)

2008  Invited commentator, "Discerning the Times," joint meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Duke University (March 2008).

2007  “Under the Guise of the True Wesleyan Church: Wesleyan Abolitionists and the Sectional Crisis in North Carolina and Virginia,” Southern Historians in New England seminar, Yale University (October 2007).

2007  Invited lecturer, “Religion in American History and Culture: The Pentecostal Example,” English and American Studies Lectures, University of Manchester, UK (April 2007).

2007  “Same as It Ever Was?: Southern Pentecostalism at 100,” The British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester, UK (April 2007).

2006  Invited presenter, "Writing for the Web," Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, AL (November 2006).

2006  Chair of “History and Meaning Revisited,” Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK (September 2006).

2006  Comment for “Rethinking the Bible Belt: Modernization, Culture, and Religious Transformation in Twentieth Century America,” Boston College Conference on the History of Religion, Chestnut Hill, MA (March 2006).

2005  Invited chair, “Loving Segregation to Death: Reverend James Lawson and Nonviolent Direct Action in Moderate Nashville,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, GA (November 2005).

2005  "'The mob was to kill a Wesleyan': Wesleyan Perfectionist Missionaries in Virginia and North Carolina, 1847-1851," Rethinking the History of the American South: A Conference in Honor of BertramWyatt-Brown, Gainesville, FL (October 2005).

2005  "'Jesus is Coming': Premillennialism and the Radicalization of the Southern Holiness Movement, 1896-1906," Presenter, The New England Historical Association, Weston, MA (April 2005).

2005 Invited commentator on William Clair Turner (Associate Professor of the Practice of Homiletics, Duke University), "'This Is a Holy Church, This Is a Sanctified Church': On Tradition, Reform and Self-Identity Under God Within the United Holy Church of America," The Society For Pentecostal Studies, Virginia Beach, VA (March 2005). 

2004 "Neither Rich nor Poor, Northern nor Southern, Black nor White, Male nor Female: Cultural and Social Patterns of the Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Holiness Movement," The St. George Tucker Society, Augusta, GA (August 2004).

2004  "'Angels' from the North: The South and the Holiness Movement," Presenter, American Society of Church History, Harrisburg, PA (April 2004).

2002 Coordinator under Bertram Wyatt-Brown for the Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conferences, University of Richmond, VA.  Helped organize panels, created webpage, attended to conference details. (February 2002).

2001 "Pentecostalism Comes to the South," Presenter, The Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, LA (November 2001).

2001 "The Fire Spreads: The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism," Presenter, The Society For Pentecostal Studies, Tulsa, OK (March 2001).

2001 "The Fire Spreads: The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism," Presenter, The Sixth Annual Barnes Club Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (February 2001). 

2009 Wesleyan Theological Society's Timothy L. Smith and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award for The Fire Spreads

2008 Named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network

2008 The Fire Spreads nominated by Harvard University Press for the Francis Parkman Prize and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion

2007 Young Scholars in American Religion Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, 2007-2009

2007 Professional Achievement Award, Eastern Nazarene College

2007 Religion in American History, Cliopatria's Best New Blog

2004 The St. George Tucker Society's Bradford Prize for Best Dissertation in Southern Studies

2004 One of fifteen semifinalists for the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in American History, Society of American Historians

2004 Richard J. Milbauer Dissertation Prize for Best Dissertation in History, University of Florida 

2004 Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa

2003 History department nominee for university-wide Graduate Teaching Award, University of Florida 

2003 Journal of Southern Religion's Sam Hill Award

2002-2003 Dissertation Fellowship, Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture (Funded by the Lilly Endowment)

2001 Finalist, Newcombe Dissertation fellowship, Princeton University

2001 Participant in the Pew Younger Scholars Seminar on the Civil War and Reconstruction, University of Notre Dame

2001 Jack and Celia Proctor Award for best essay on Southern History, University of Florida

2001 Hanger Research Fellowship, University of Florida

2001 Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Florida

1998 Laurence C. Boylan Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Emporia State University

1994-1995 Art Student of the Year, Olivet Nazarene University

1994 Elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities

2004- Web design, oversight, maintenance:

Eastern Nazarene College (webmaster, September 2006-May 2007)

Journal of Southern Religion

Religion in American History blog

The Boston-Area American Religious History Group

The Historical Society

History Department, Eastern Nazarene College

The Polkinghorne Society

Open Theology and Science

British Abolitionism, Moral Progress, & Big Questions in History, A conference jointly funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Historical Society, 26-28 April 2007, Crowne Plaza St. James, London

David Brion Davis, "Slavery, Emancipation and Human Progress," a free public lecture, 26 April 2007, Central Hall Westminster, London

Tidal Wave Magazine

2009- Conference organizer, with Dan Russ, "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 Years Later," Oct 1-2

2009- Co-editor, Religion in American History blog

2009- Organizer, with Jon Roberts, the Boston-Area American Religious History Group

2008 Membership Committee, the Southern Historical Association

2007- 2009 Contributing editor, Religion in American History blog

2006- Co-editor, Journal of Southern Religion

2004-06 Associate editor, Journal of Southern Religion

2005- Manuscript reviewer, HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, New York University Press, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture; the Journal of Policy History, Wiley-Blackwell, University of Alabama Press, The Public Historian, The Journal of the Historical Society

2005- Layout and design for the Historical Society's two publications, The Journal of the Historical Society and Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society 

2001-2002 Research Assistant to Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, University of Florida 

2001-2004 Editor, Tidal Wave Magazine (a music, film, and indie-culture publication)

1999 Research Assistant to W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Professor of History, University of Florida

1998-1999 Research Assistant to Robert H. Zieger, Professor of History, University of Florida

1998-2002 Music writer for Skyscraper Magazine (NY), Harp Magazine (MD), Satellite Magazine (FL), Tidal Wave Magazine (FL), and Ink19 (FL)

1996- Member of indie rock outfit Jetenderpaul, which released three full length cds, one e.p., and two 7" records on Velvet Blue Music (Huntington Beach, CA), Burnt Toast Vinyl (Philadelphia, PA), and Hype City Records (Norway). 

The American Historical Association
The American Society of Church History
The Conference on Faith and History
The Historical Society
The Organization of American Historians
Southern Intellectual History Circle
The St. George Tucker Society
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Beta Kappa
The Southern Historical Association
The Wesleyan Theological Society