C.V.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2018-present
Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2012-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2011-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University, 2010-2011
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2010
University of Georgia
M.A., 2004
University of Georgia
B.A., 2001
Furman University
Books
---- Hard Times in Glory Land: Religion, Memory, and the South's Long Great Depression (in progress)
---- Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, with Ted Ownby and James G. Thomas, Jr., eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019)
---- The Business Turn in American Religious History, with John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
---- The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Articles/Chapters (selected)
----- "The New Deal's Southern Shrine: Religion and Memory at FDR's Little White House," Southern Cultures 33:3 (Fall 2026)
----- "From Revolt to Redevelopment: Memory, Neoliberalism, and the General Textile Strike of 1934," Study the South (June 2026). Available here.
----- “Y’all-in-the-Box Faiths: The South and the Religion Problem in Modern American History,” Modern American History 8:3 (December 2025). Available here.
----- “On Teaching Southern History at the 'Most Southern University on Earth,'” Journal of Southern History 91:4 (November 2025). Available here.
----- "The Bleachery's New Souths," Oxford American (Summer 2025). Available here.
----- “Capitalism, Religion, and Politics,” Routledge History of U.S. Religion and Politics, Lauren Turek and Cara Burnidge, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2024).
----- “Business,” The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
----- “Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism,” Enterprise & Society (March 2014)
----- “The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
----- “Selling a ‘Disneyland for the Devout’: Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker’s Heritage USA,” in Dominic Janes, ed., Shopping for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Press, 2008).
Public Scholarship (forthcoming/recent)
---- Paper, “Ruralizing Hoover: Region, Religion, and the Pastoral in Anti-New Deal Conservative Memory.” Panel: “Approaches to Rural Identity in Religious Studies: Embattlement, Recovery, and Change,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church Historians, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7-10, 2027.
---- “On Reagan’s Dime: Remembering and Forgetting FDR as Conservative Cultural Politics, 1989-2004.” Panel: “Remade to Be Remembered: Conservative Presidents in American Memory,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 8-11, 2026.
---- “Depressionlands: The 1930s in the Southern Memorial Landscape,” National Endowment for the Humanities and Center for Practical Ethics Conference on “Memorialization: Theory, Methods, Goals, and Ethics,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, March 14-15, 2025.
---- “Splintered Memories of the Great Depression and New Deal,” Realms of Memory, 2024. Available on podcast here.
---- “Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons and the South’s Great Depression in American Memory,” SouthTalks, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, April 10, 2024. Available on YouTube here.
---- “Memory, Place, and the General Textile Strike of 1934,” Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University-Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, March 28-29, 2024. Panel: “The Sociology and History of Place.”
---- “Race, Racism, and the Great Depression in American Memory,” Coalition for the Study of Race and Racism, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, February 26, 2024.
Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2018-present
Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies
University of Mississippi, 2012-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2011-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University, 2010-2011
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2010
University of Georgia
M.A., 2004
University of Georgia
B.A., 2001
Furman University
Books
---- Hard Times in Glory Land: Religion, Memory, and the South's Long Great Depression (in progress)
---- Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, with Ted Ownby and James G. Thomas, Jr., eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019)
---- The Business Turn in American Religious History, with John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
---- The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Articles/Chapters (selected)
----- "The New Deal's Southern Shrine: Religion and Memory at FDR's Little White House," Southern Cultures 33:3 (Fall 2026)
----- "From Revolt to Redevelopment: Memory, Neoliberalism, and the General Textile Strike of 1934," Study the South (June 2026). Available here.
----- “Y’all-in-the-Box Faiths: The South and the Religion Problem in Modern American History,” Modern American History 8:3 (December 2025). Available here.
----- “On Teaching Southern History at the 'Most Southern University on Earth,'” Journal of Southern History 91:4 (November 2025). Available here.
----- "The Bleachery's New Souths," Oxford American (Summer 2025). Available here.
----- “Capitalism, Religion, and Politics,” Routledge History of U.S. Religion and Politics, Lauren Turek and Cara Burnidge, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2024).
----- “Business,” The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
----- “Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism,” Enterprise & Society (March 2014)
----- “The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy and Chick-fil-A,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
----- “Selling a ‘Disneyland for the Devout’: Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker’s Heritage USA,” in Dominic Janes, ed., Shopping for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Press, 2008).
Public Scholarship (forthcoming/recent)
---- Paper, “Ruralizing Hoover: Region, Religion, and the Pastoral in Anti-New Deal Conservative Memory.” Panel: “Approaches to Rural Identity in Religious Studies: Embattlement, Recovery, and Change,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church Historians, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7-10, 2027.
---- “On Reagan’s Dime: Remembering and Forgetting FDR as Conservative Cultural Politics, 1989-2004.” Panel: “Remade to Be Remembered: Conservative Presidents in American Memory,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 8-11, 2026.
---- “Depressionlands: The 1930s in the Southern Memorial Landscape,” National Endowment for the Humanities and Center for Practical Ethics Conference on “Memorialization: Theory, Methods, Goals, and Ethics,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, March 14-15, 2025.
---- “Splintered Memories of the Great Depression and New Deal,” Realms of Memory, 2024. Available on podcast here.
---- “Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons and the South’s Great Depression in American Memory,” SouthTalks, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, April 10, 2024. Available on YouTube here.
---- “Memory, Place, and the General Textile Strike of 1934,” Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University-Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, March 28-29, 2024. Panel: “The Sociology and History of Place.”
---- “Race, Racism, and the Great Depression in American Memory,” Coalition for the Study of Race and Racism, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, February 26, 2024.
