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, U.S.A.: The Great Depression and New Deal in American Memory (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)
----- "Redeeming Herbert Hoover: Memory Politics and the Rise of Modern Conservatism" (in progress)
----- "Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons, Regionalized Memory, and the Recessionary 1970s" (in progress)
----- “Reticence, Remembrance, and Redevelopment: The General Textile Strike of 1934's Memorial Landscapes” (in progress)
----- “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).
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, U.S.A.: The Great Depression and New Deal in American Memory (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)
----- "Redeeming Herbert Hoover: Memory Politics and the Rise of Modern Conservatism" (in progress)
----- "Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons, Regionalized Memory, and the Recessionary 1970s" (in progress)
----- “Reticence, Remembrance, and Redevelopment: The General Textile Strike of 1934's Memorial Landscapes” (in progress)
----- “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).
