I’m a historian of missions, Mormonism, and American religion.
I graduated with a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity and religions of North America at Claremont Graduate University.
I specialize in transdisciplinary research methods, drawing from the field of religious studies.
I have written and lectured on missionaries and their interactions with proselytes.
I have taught courses on world religions and Mormon history at Brigham Young University.
Co-Edited with Christopher Cannon Jones
American missionaries, both Mormon and Protestant, have embarked on intrepid and audacious campaigns to evangelize the world.
Despite sometimes wide differences in religious belief and practice, these groups shared in dividing the world categorically along lines of race, status, and exoticism, and in occupying liminal spaces between proselytizer and proselytized, feminine and masculine, colonizer and colonized.
This series of essays offers an often overlooked juxtaposition between Protestant and Mormon missionary efforts during periods of sustained outreach and features top scholars in the field of missionary history.
Foreword
Introduction
Heathen Landscapes: Of Souls and Soils
Before “Woman’s Work for Woman”: Protestant Missionary Applications and Gender
Humanitarian Encounter in Late Ottoman Turkey: State, American Protestant Missions, and the Christian Herald Armenian Relief Fund
Dueling Orientalisms: The Scottish Imagination in the Mormon Missionary Mind
Shoshone Worlds, Bannock Zions: Protestant and Latter-day Saint Missionary Work among the Shoshone and Bannock
Traveling Elders: The Latter-day Saint Gaze on Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
Earthquakes, Mudslides, and Hurricanes: Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in Evangelical Missionary Strategy
Inventing Rupture in India and America: Adivāsi Converts, Hindu Nationalists, and American RLDS Missionaries, 1966–1996
Technological Christianity: Transferring Processes, Forms, and Organizational Tools within Global Missionary Encounters
Missing Missiology: Latter-day Saint Missionary Pragmatism and the Search for Scholarship
American Missionaries and the Struggle for Control of Christianity’s Symbolic Capital
A reader-friendly column layout bringing the Four Gospels into parallel view.
Many “gospel harmonies” lay the gospel texts side by side. This edition offers the King James Version in a parallel format arranged by pericope—the story units that circulated among the earliest followers of Jesus as narrative traditions before they were written down.
This synopsis affords students of the gospels a new reading sequence in a familiar translation. Released under a Creative Commons license and free to download.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate University
In 1800, the first missionary periodicals to be published in the United States entered circulation.
Readers would soon rely on this growing literature for information about the world beyond.
This dissertation traces the ways missionaries abroad defined the “foreign” for home audiences, and in turn, shaped early ideas of American exceptionalism.