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)
Public Scholarship (selected)
---- “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 American 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.
---- “From Remembrance to Redevelopment: 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.
Articles/Chapters (selected)
----- "Memory, Neoliberalism, and the General Textile Strike of 1934," Study the South (forthcoming, Winter 2026)
----- “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 Legacy of Rock Hill, SC's Bleachery," 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).
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)
Public Scholarship (selected)
---- “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 American 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.
---- “From Remembrance to Redevelopment: 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.
Articles/Chapters (selected)
----- "Memory, Neoliberalism, and the General Textile Strike of 1934," Study the South (forthcoming, Winter 2026)
----- “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 Legacy of Rock Hill, SC's Bleachery," 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).
