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 (forthcoming).
  • ​“A City on a Hill: Mobilizing Evangelical Protestant Men for Moral Reform under the Des Moines Plan, 1907-1916.” The Annals of Iowa (forthcoming).
  • “Big-League Basketball Comes to Omaha: A History of the Omahawks.” Nebraska History 97.4 (Winter 2016): 185-198.
  • "From the Pulpit to the Press: Frank Crane's Omaha, 1892-1896." Nebraska History 96.3 (Fall 2015): 136-153
  • 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

​My dissertation is the first archival-based historical study of the ways in which American Protestantism became embedded in the world of commercialized, big-time sport in the twentieth-century United States. It explains how sports were used as a cultural site for the continuation of a Protestant-derived sense of religious nationalism even as twentieth-century American society supposedly became more secular. It also highlights the importance of mainline Protestantism and Cold War-era anticommunism in galvanizing the movement to bring religion more fully into the realm of athletic competition. Broadly, my research focuses on American history and the intersection of sports and religion. It also touches on themes of popular culture, gender, race, and region (particularly the Midwest).
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.
Check out my piece "A Short History of Christian Matchmaking."
(Note: This piece was also featured in the Spring 2014 edition of Christian Ethics Today)
Check out my piece "Nebraska: A Cornhusker Prays with FCA"
​Check out my piece "The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests"
Sport in American History - an acdemic group blog.
I am a guest contributor. You can find my posts by clicking here.
History of Christianity - the official blog of the American Society of Church History
From August 2014 until January 2015, I was a regular contributor. Check out the blog here.
Religion in the American West - an academic group blog
Check out my guest post, "Bringing Social Gospel Back."
Then and Now - a weekly Christian Century column edited at the time by historians Ed Blum and Kate Bowler.
Check out my guest post, "Son of God and marketing Jesus movies to ministers." 

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