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current position
- Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Politics, and Global Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
previous employment
- Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, August 2014-July 2016
- Associate Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, August 2009-July 2012
education
- PhD, Religion in the Americas + American Studies minor, Indiana University, 2015
- MA, Religious Studies + American Indian & Native Studies certificate, University of Iowa, 2009
- BA, Religious Studies & English/Creative Writing, University of Kansas, 2007
honors, grants, & fellowships
- National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH Summer Scholar, Problems in the Study of Religion
- American Philosophical Society: Phillips Fund for Native American Research
- U.S. Department of Education: FLAS <Foreign Language & Area Studies> Fellowship
- Indiana University: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Native American & Indigenous Studies Fellowship, Won-Joon Yoon Award for diversity & tolerance, College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award, Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in Society Travel Award, College Arts & Humanities Institute Travel Award, Indiana Graduate Student & Professional Organization Travel Award, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Summer Field Research Grant, Religious Studies Department paper prize
- University of Iowa: University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students research grant & travel grant
teaching awards
- University of Tennessee: F. Stanley Lusby and John O. Hodges Teaching Award, Department of Religious Studies
- Indiana University: Leiber Memorial Teaching Award
professional engagement
- American Academy of Religion: Native Traditions in the Americas steering committee, Cultural History of the Study of Religion steering committee, Religion in the American West steering committee
- Native American & Indigenous Studies Association
- North American Association for the Study of Religion
- American Studies Association
- American Society of Church History
- American Historical Association
