Broadly, I am a historian of race and religion in eighteenth-century Early America and transatlantic world. My primary research interests focuses upon religion in colonial America, early anti-slavery narratives, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic world, Great Awakening, and the New England theological tradition.

My current research—as it pertains to my dissertation—examines Jonathan Edwards’s dealings with slavery and theological ideas of race. More specifically, this project serves to understand the role race and religion had on early Evangelicalism’s relationship with slavery. Although a slaver himself, I argue that  Edwards contributed greatly to the later abolitionist movement found in the New Divinity. More information about my dissertation can be found here.

Currently, I am an Adjunct Professor at the  University of Louisville. I graduated from the  University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in History, and hold a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology in Church History & Historical Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. For more information, my CV can be found here. When I’m not researching, I enjoy Crossfit, college football & basketball, and most of all, I love spending time with my family—Liz, Isaac, and our newest, Mary.