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History, Religion, Pedagogy

I am a PhD candidate in American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a writing fellow at the New York City College of Technology. My undergraduate education was at Shepherd University (Political Science & History) and I received an MA in History from George Mason University in 2010.

My primary interest is the early American republic (c. 1783-1828), with a focus on disestablishment (the separation of church and state) and the role of politics in denominational formation and religious competition. My dissertation focuses on a comparative study of the impact of politics and law upon denominational competition in the early national Chesapeake. I have related interests in the intersections of politics and religion in early America, early American intellectual history, Virginia history, and gender history.

I have previous research experience in the military history of the American Revolution (focusing on the role of African-Americans in the patriot cause), the 1967 Newark Riot, and Virginian political and religious culture between 1750 and 1850. I am currently revising for possible publication a project on the impact of politics upon parish life in the Virginia Episcopal Church between disestablishment and the first decade of the nineteenth century.