Ph.D., American History, University of Notre Dame, 1999
M.A., American History, University of Notre Dame, 1995
B.A., History and Social Studies Education, Taylor University, 1984
Experience
1999-Present, Professor of History, Malone University
1997, Instructor, University of Notre Dame
1996, Adjunct Professor of History, Taylor University at Fort Wayne
1994-95, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame
1986-93, Social Studies Teacher, Rift Valley Academy, Kijabe, Kenya
1985-86, Social Studies Teacher, Oak Hill High School, Marion, IN
1984-85, Social Studies Teacher, Madison-Grant High School, Marion, IN
Recent Scholarly Work
“In Praise of Limitations,” in Eric Miller and Ron Morgan, eds, Brazilian Evangelicalism and the Hope of Renewal: An Inside and Outside Look. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
“What the Waorani Mission Wrought.” Christianity Today. March, 2019.
An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicalism and World Christianity, 1812-1910, New York: Oxford University Press. 2012.
“The Methodist and Holiness Movement in North America,” in Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll, eds, The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Oxford University Press. 2017.
“Students Are Not Simply Thinking Beings: Cultivating Desires for Quaker Principles,” Quaker Higher Education, November 2013.
“Emancipation and the African American Great Awakening, 1866-1880,” in American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the Shape of American Religious History, Kurt W. Peterson, Thomas S. Kidd and Darren Dochuk, eds., Norte Dame, In.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
“And Ever the Twain Shall Meet: The Holiness Missionary Movement and the Birth of World Pentecostalism, 1870-1920.” Religion and American Culture, Summer, 2006, vol. 16, no. 1.
“The American Baptist Reaction to Asian Christianity,” in Lamin Sanneh and Joel Carpenter, eds., The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West and the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“From the Native Ministry to the Talented Tenth: The Foreign Missionary Origins of White Support for Black Higher Education,” in Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, eds., The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History, Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2003.
Teaching Assignments
College Experience
World History: 1500 to Present
American History: Colonial Era to the Civil War
American History: Gilded Age to the Present
Religion in America
History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
History of Africa
History of Latin America
History of Missions and World Christianity
Faith in the World Seminar: Film and the American Dream
Education