Peer-Reviewed Work

  • “Commercializing the Sacred Office: Sexual Revolution and the Scandal of the Modern Marrying Parson, 1895-1930,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17.1 (January 2018): 56-76. [PDF available upon request]
  • “For Race and Region: A Brief History of the Western Negro Press Association, 1896-1920,” Great Plains Quarterly 38.2 (Spring 2018): 175-198. [PDF available upon request]
  • ​“A City on a Hill: Mobilizing Evangelical Protestant Men for Moral Reform under the Des Moines Plan, 1907-1916.” The Annals of Iowa  77.1 (Winter 2018): 1-40. [PDF available upon request]
  • “Big-League Basketball Comes to Omaha: A History of the Omahawks.” Nebraska History 97.4 (Winter 2016): 185-198. [PDF available upon request]
  • "From the Pulpit to the Press: Frank Crane's Omaha, 1892-1896." Nebraska History 96.3 (Fall 2015): 136-153. [this article can be accessed online]
  • Co-author with Jordan R. Bass and Mark Vermillion, “‘Going Viral’: The Impact of Forced Crowdsourcing on Coaching Evaluation Procedures.” International Sport Coaching Journal  1.2 (2014): 103-108.
  • “A Church for the People and a Priest for the Common Man: Charles W. Savidge, Omaha’s Eccentric Reformer.” Nebraska History 94.2 (Summer 2013): 54-73. [this article can be accessed online]
  • “Jesse ‘Cab’ Renick: In Search of an Indian Identity.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 89.1 (Spring 2011): 72-97.
Current Research

​I am in the process of revising my dissertation into a book manuscript. The tentative title is: The Spirit of the Game: American Protestants, Big-Time Sports, and the Contest for National Identity.
Some of my non peer-reviewed writing has appeared at various scholarly hubs on the internet, including the following:
Religion & Politics - an online news journal run by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sport in American History - an acdemic group blog.
I am a guest contributor. You can find my posts by clicking here.
Religion in American History - an academic group blog.
I am a regular contributor. You can find my posts by clicking here. Listed below is a sampling of my posts at the blog.

Book Preview Lists:
Book Reviews:
American West/Midwest