Teaching and Speaking


Teaching Experience

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Why History Matters to Public Policy, Spring 2026 (Graduate Research Consultant)
    • American History Since 1865 (instructor of record), Spring 2025
    • Modern America, 1984-2024, Fall 2024 (TA)
    • American History to 1865, Spring 2024 (TA)
    • Why History Matters to Public Policy, Spring 2024 (Graduate Research Consultant)
    • Women in the United States from Settlement to Present, Fall 2023 (TA)
    • American History Since 1865, Spring 2023 (TA)
    • Modes of Inquiry, Spring 2023 (Graduate Research Consultant)
    • America in the 1970s, Fall 2022 (TA)
    • Modes of Inquiry, Fall 2022 (Graduate Research Consultant)
    • The World Since 1945, Spring 2022 (TA)
    • Why History Matters to Public Policy, Spring 2022 (Graduate Research Consultant)
    • Sport in American History, Fall 2021 (TA)
    • North Carolina History to 1865, Spring 2021 (TA)
    • The Social History of Popular Music in Twentieth Century America, Fall 2020 (TA)
  • Duke University
    • American Christianity (preceptor), Duke University, Fall 2025
  • Spring Arbor University
    • United States since 1877 (instructor of record – online), Spring Arbor University, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, and Fall 2025
    • Twentieth Century America (instructor of record – online), Spring Arbor University, Spring 2022 and Spring 2023

Guest Lectures and Public Talks

  • “Trump’s America,” Guest Lecture for Modern America, 1984 – 2024, Chapel Hill, NC, 2024
  • “Common Presence, ‘Uncommon Faithfulness’: Black Churchwomen in the United States,” Guest Lecture for Historical Approaches to American Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, 2024.
  • “The 1970s: Evangelicals Hour of Decision,” Guest Lecture for America in the 1970s, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022.
  • “Woodrow Wilson’s Religious and Racial Worldview,” in Panel Discussion on World War I and America’s Place in the World, Jackson, MI, 2017

Conference Presentations

  • Co-Author with Robert Pleasants, “Welcoming First Year Students into an Undergraduate Research Community through Peer Mentorship and a Course-Based Approach,” National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Long Beach, CA, 2024
  • “The Years of the Evangelical: 1926, 1976, and 2016,” American Society of Church History Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
  • “Mediating Evangelicalism: Christianity Today, Its Advertisements, and the Creation of a Neo-Evangelical Brand, 1956-1959,” American Society of Church History Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2022. (Paper accepted – withdrew due to COVID concerns)
  • “The Failed Revolution,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Sylvania, OH, 2015