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current position
- Assistant Professor of American Religions, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 2019-present
previous employment
- Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Politics, and Global Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, 2016-2019
- Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, August 2014-2016
- Associate Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, 2009-2012
education
- Professional Certificate, Museum Studies, Northwestern University, 2018
- 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
- Iowa State University: Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Summer Research Grant (2020), Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Grant (2020)
- Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture: 2018-19 Young Scholar in American Religion (YSAR)
- National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH Summer Scholar, Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere, Georgetown University (2019); NEH Summer Scholar, Problems in the Study of Religion, University of Virginia, (2014)
- 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: Lieber 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
- Native American & Indigenous Studies Association
- North American Association for the Study of Religion
- American Studies Association
- American Society of Church History
- American Historical Association
