Ph.D., American History, 2002, University of Delaware
M.A., Christian Thought, 1994, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
B.S. Bible, 1988, Lancaster Bible College
Courses Taught
HUM 103 - Invitation to the Humanities, including First-Year Honors Program sections
HIS 250-252 - three-course survey of U.S. History
HIS 260 - History of Latin America
HIS 371 -U.S. Cultural History
HIS 401 - Green History and Thought
HIS 421 - History in Place
Presentations/Publications
“Up With the People?” Comment (website), 12 May 2016.
“Putting the Porch In Its Place: Christopher Lasch’s Republican Hope.” Paper presented for a panel on “The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Christopher Lasch at the annual conference of the Front Porch Republic, Inc., SUNY-Geneseo, 3 October 2015.
“Progressivism and Evangelicalism in 21st Century Brazil.” Paper presented at the conference “Evangelicals in Brazil: Transformation and Conflict,” 7 August 2015, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Co-coordinator of the second meeting of the ongoing seminar “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil.” Recife, Brazil, August 4-10, 2015. This was the central event of the first year of the collaborative project on Brazilian evangelicalism that is being funded through a CCCU Networking Grant, of which I am the project coordinator.
“Just Another Naked King.” Front Porch Republic (website), 30 July 2015.
“Wendell Berry and the Rise of the New Localism.” Presentation at the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, 14 May 2015.
Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (Eerdmans, 2010). http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=9780802817693.
Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation, edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01410
Awards & Distinctions Received
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002-2003, Geneva College
Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2005-2006, Geneva College
Member of the Executive Board of the Conference on Faith and History, 2006-2010. http://www.huntington.edu/cfh/default.htm
Member of the editorial board of Fides et Historia
Member of the Board of Directors of Mars Hill Audio
Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch received Christianity Today's 2011 book award in history/biograph
Research Fellow, Kentucky Historical Society, 2015-2016
Recipient of a Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Networking Grant for a collaborative endeavor titled “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil,” of which I am the project director
Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.