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                                    CV 
EDUCATION
 
Ph.D.                          University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019
                                   Religious Studies: Religion, Race, and Class
                                   Advisor: Dr. Anthea Butler
 
                                   Dissertation Title:                  “The Pentecostal Construction of Race: Churches of God in the American Religious  
​                                                                                   Frontier 1884-1955”
                                  
                                   Committee:                             Dr. Anthea Butler, Dr. John Jackson, Dr. Sarah Gordon
 
                                   Comprehensive Exams                                                                             
                                   African American Religious History 19th/20th century                     Dr. Barbara Savage
                                   American Religious History (material and visual culture)                 Dr. Sarah Gordon
                                   Pentecostalism, Holiness Movement, Evangelicalism                       Dr. Anthea Butler
 
M.A.                           University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016
                                   Religious Studies
 
M.Div.                        Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, 2011
                                   Thesis in History of Religion: “African Reading of an Appalachian Church: An Intentional Reconstructive        
                                   Ethnohistory of the Church of God (Cleveland, TN)” Advisor:  Dr. Richard F. Young
 
B.A.                            Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, 2008
                                   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020-2021              Associate Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology, Crawfordsville, IN. 

2019                         Lecturer, School of Arts and Sciences, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

2017                          Adjunct Professor, Comparative Religion, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA.
 
2017                          Teaching Assistant, American Jesus, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Anthea Butler.
 
2016                          Teaching Assistant, Gods, Ghosts, and Monsters, (Online course) University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Justin McDaniel.
 
2015                          Teaching Assistant, Social Change through Participatory Filmmaking, University of Pennsylvania and West  
                                  Philadelphia High School, Dr. John Jackson.
 
2015                          Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Buddhism, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Justin McDaniel.
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2011-2013                 Visiting Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Christian History, Religious Ecologies, and Pentecostalism. Seminario
                                   Sudamericano SEMISUD, Quito-Ecuador.     
          
PUBLICATIONS
  
2019                        “Material Salvation: Folklore and Synthesis in American Religious History” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive                                             
                                  Era
18 (2019): 147-150

2016                         “Brief and Process-Oriented Filmmaking, Is It Possible? Rethinking Works on Native Filmmaking with and in an  
                                  Experimental Classroom” American Anthropology 118 (2016): 159-161.
 
2014                          "Pentecostal History, Imagination, and Listening between the Lines: Historiographic Creativity for Writing Histories
                                   of the Marginalized" Pneuma: Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 36 (2014): 25-44.
 
2012                          “‘Going Through With Jesus:’ Myrtle Viola Whitehead, A Case Study and Reconsideration of Pentecostal History” 
                                  Theology Today 68 (2012): 383-92.
 
 
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2018                          "Airplanes that Preach and Monuments that Cry Out: Material Pentecostalism and the Form of
                                  American Religion" American Academy of Religion.
 
2017                          “The Not-white White Pentecostals of Appalachia: Rethinking Religio-racial Identities in the History of American  
                                  Pentecostalism” American Academy of Religion.
 
2016                         “Beginning in the Middle of Nowhere: The Role of Land in Making Appalachian Religious Histories” American
                                  Studies Association
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2016                          “The Airplane is the Voice of Prophecy Even If It Doesn’t Speak English, Greek, or Hebrew” International Society for
                                  Media, Religion, and Culture
. Seoul, Republic of Korea.
 
2015                          “To GIS or not to GIS? Critical Reflections on Digital Mapping” Penn Digital Humanities Forum, University of
                                  Pennsylvania.
 
2014                          “Brush Arbors: Pentecostal Space, Place, and Time” Northwestern University Graduate Student Conference.
 
2014                          “Listening to the South: Quechua Suggestions for Understanding North American Pentecostal Hermeneutics”
                                  Society for Pentecostal Studies.
 
2013                          “Holiness, Pentecostal, and Cherokee: Cherokee Influences on the Early Healing Practices of the Church of God
                                  (Cleveland,TN)” Society for Pentecostal Studies.
 
2012                          “Pentecostal History, Imagination, and Listening in-between the Lines: Historiographic Creativity for Writing
                                  Histories of the Marginalized” American Academy of Religion.
 
ACADEMIC FILMS
 
2017                           “When Science Meets Race” (29 minutes)
                                   A four chapter documentary concerning the scientific construction of Race, public role of race in academics, the  
                                   crania collections of Samuel Morton at the University of Pennsylvania Musuem.  This academic film project was
                                   funded by a grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage ($25,000) and led by CAMRA
​                                   (www.camrapenn.org).
 
2016                           “Listening to the Walls: a visual ethnography of three religions in one place” (13 minutes).
                                    Short documentary film focusing on material culture and religion centered around Wat Preah Buddha Rangsey, a
                                    Cambodian Buddhist Wat in South Philadelphia.
 
2014                           “Mountains Stories Beliefs” (9 minutes)
                                   Short film focusing on the ecological impact of mountains and forests on the religious practices, beliefs, and
                                   cosmologies of Appalachian Pentecostals. Film highlighted the Unicoi Turnpike in Southeastern Tennessee and    
                                   Western North Carolina. Funded by University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s New Media  
                                   Grant ($2000).
 
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
 
2016/2017               Boardman Fellow, Religious Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania.
                                 Planned and hosted panel of noted activists and scholars discussing: “Sanctuary: A Public Conversation on Religion,
                                 Immigration, and Contested Spaces.”
 
2015/2016              Camra Fellows Director, CAMRA (multimodal research group) University of Pennsylvania. 
                                Coordinated mentoring program that paired graduate student mentors with undergraduate fellows. Hosted public  
                                showcase screening event of the fellows’ work.
 
2015/2016              Peer Reviewer for “Journal of Material Religion.”
 
2014/2015              Communications Director, CAMRA (multimodal research group) University of Pennsylvania.
                                Maintained and coordinated website for film showcase, blog, calendar, scholars’ profiles, advertisement of
                                Screening Scholarship Media Festival.
 
2014/2015              SSMF Fellows’ Mentor, CAMRA (multimodal research group) University of Pennsylvania.
                                Met weekly with fellow, guided, instructed and mentored their production of a short film on urban faith based
                                organizations.
 
2014/2015               Research Assistant to Dr. Anthea Butler, Religious Studies department University of Pennsylvania. 
 
2014                         Research Assistant to Dr. Timothy Powell, “Preserving and Revitalizing Endangered Native American Languages
                                 Held in the American Philosophical Society Library,” Mellon Foundation, American Philosophical Society.
 
2014                         Research Assistant to Dr. Timothy Powell, "Developing a Cultural Sensitivities Workshop at the Indian Health      
                                 Services clinic at Cass Lake Hospital on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Indian reservation," University of Pennsylvania,
                                 Humanities Initiatives with Tribal Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 
 
ACADEMIC HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
 
2020                       Louisville Institute Post Doctoral Fellow; resigned 2/1/2021 ($150,000)
2018 - 2019            Mellon funded UPenn Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania ($50,240)
2018 - 2019            Louisville Institute, Dissertation Fellowship ($22,000 monies declined)
2013 -2018             Benjamin Franklin Grant, University of Pennsylvania ($250,000)
2016-2017              Boardman Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Religious Studies Department ($5,000)
2015                        Training Grant, University of Pennsylvania Digital Humanities Forum ($1,200)
2014                        Dean’s New Media Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania ($2,000)
2011                         History Fellowship, History of Religion Thesis Prize, Princeton Seminary ($3,000)
2008-2010            Fellowship, Fund for Theological Education ($20,000)
2007-2011              George D. Voorhis Education Fund Scholarship ($2,500)
2007                       Gateway Scholarship, Lee University ($2,000)
2006-2008           Martin Endowment Scholarship ($10,000)
2004-2011              Edward L. and Irma B. Williams Scholarship ($3,500)
2004-2006            Poiema Scholarship Lee University ($9,000)
2004-2005            Presidential Scholarship Lee University ($15,000)
2004                       Della Arnold Scholarship Wilkesboro, NC ($500)
 
LANGUAGES
 
Modern:                  Spanish, French
Ancient:                  Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
 
 
ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations--Association for Computers and for Humanities (2014 – present)
American Academy of Religion (2011 – present)
American Society for Church History (2012 – present)
American Studies Association (2016 – present)
Appalachian Studies Association (2014 – present)
CAMRA at Penn (2013 – present)
Society for Pentecostal Studies (2008 – present)
 
 

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