Research

Current focus

My current research centers on recovering the role of women in the creation, maintenance, and defense of Pentecostal serpent handling in the first-generation Church of God.

• The Women and the Word: Serpent Handling and the Women of the Church of God, 1914–1935 — M.A. thesis, University of Colorado Boulder, 2021

Emerging direction

Since completing my M.A., I have been developing research interests at the intersection of religion and environmental history, examining how outdoor recreation and religious practice (especially camping, revival culture, discourses of healing and wellness, and mediated encounters with landscape) have structured religious identity and cultural belonging.

Peer-reviewed publication

• The Women and the Word: Serpent Handling, Devotional Writing, and the Women in the Church of God, 1914–1936, Journal of Southern Religion, 2025PDF

Selected awards

• The Clyde Augustus Duniway Award for Outstanding Student Achievement
  Colorado College • Colorado Springs, CO
  May 2016
• Robert J. Cosgrove Historical Thesis Prize
  Colorado College • Colorado Springs, CO
  May 2016