Education
- B.A., With Highest Distinction, History, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Project: "From Pulpits to Polls: How Female Preachers Birthed the Women's Rights Movement" Published 2009
- M.A., History, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Project: "Stealing Heroes, Stealing History: Rani Lakshmi Bai," "Legends and Lies: Pearl DeVere and the Social Purity Movement in Nineteenth Century America," "Sex as Social Control: The Medieval Church and Women"
Biography
Born and raised just outside of Tulsa, OK, I have lived in a variety of places from Maine to Colorado. In addition to being a PhD candidate, I am ordained clergy in Metropolitan Community Churches and pastor a local congregation of the world's oldest and largest LGBTQ+ church. I have a wife of 23 years who is also an educator and a teenage daughter who is a ballet dancer among many other things!
As much as i enjoy the thrill of research, my passion is teaching. I esepecially love teaching freshman-level courses and watching young people discover their own identities as well as discovering their own love of history.
Research interests
My studies focuses on women and women's religious history. I enjoy exploring the ways women have used ritual as a subversive means of self-empowerment. My current project centers on the Girl Scouts and investigates the ways that this girl-led, girl-empowering movement maintained a unique identity in the midst of major social changes throughout the twentieth century.
Research Summary
My current research explore the Girl Scouts and the ways they formed an maintained a unique identity as a girl-led and girl-empowering organization throughout the twentieth century.