Accomplishments

Presentations

“Printer, Postman, Preacher: Alexander Campbell and the Correlative Interests of Business, the State, and Religion in the American West,” to be presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting (SHEAR) – 2018

“Religion and the State: Investigations into the Complex Roles of Sisters, Mormons, and Campbellites in the West” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting (SHEAR) – 2018 – Panel Organizer

“The Business of Building a Church: The Importance of Economic Advantage for Denomination Building in the Trans-Appalachian West” to be presented November, 2017 at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Boston

“Cultivating the Domain: Analyzing the Importance of Agriculture, Land Speculation, and Print to the Construction of a Campbellite Denomination in the Trans-Appalachian West” to be presented August, 2017 at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

“Thinking Progressive, Feeling Conservative: Competing Constructions of Christianity in the Trans-Appalachian West,” Symposium on Religion – Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict – Arizona State University – Panel Organizer – 2017

“Christian Industry: Alexander Campbell and Denomination Building in the Trans-Appalachian West” to be presented April 2017 at the Symposium on Religion – Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict – Arizona State University – 2017

“Editors for Peace, Congregants for War: A Discourse on Politics and War Among Early Churches of Christ” American Academy of Religion Pacific Northwest meeting – 2016

“The Morning of a New Lebenstag: Henry David Thoreau’s Time in Canton,” The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting – 2016

“A Winter of New Ideas: Orestes Brownson’s Influence on Henry David Thoreau” Front Range Early American Consortium Annual Meeting – 2015

“True Christians True Americans: Contested Christian Identities in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” The American Society for Church History – 2015, Panel Organizer

“A Functional Space for God: Alexander Campbell’s Prescription for Christian Space,” The American Society for Church History – 2015

Publications

“’From All That Appears Within These Costly Domes And Chapels: Alexander Campbell’s Prescription for Christian Space.” Journal of Southern Religion. (18) (2016): jsreligion.org/vol18/dupey

Revisions Editor – Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 10, ed. 3. New York: Infobase Publishing. (In Progress).

Selected Awards

Graduate College Completion Fellowship – Arizona State University – 2017-2018

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence Award – Arizona State University – 2017

University Graduate Fellowship – Arizona State University – 2017

Peterson Fellow – American Antiquarian Society – 2016

University Graduate Fellowship – Arizona State University – 2016

Max Millett Travel Grant – Arizona State University, 2016

Michael Schoeneke Travel Grant – PCA/ACA 2016

Best Graduate Student Work Award, History, Arizona State University, 2013-2014

Raymond Schults Graduate Award – Best Master’s Thesis, Eastern Washington University, May 2011

William F. Cody Fellowship, Eastern Washington University, 2009-2010