Research

Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Field: Subject to Dust

New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase

Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Popular Culture

“Religious Spaces of American Whaling,” in John Corrigan, ed., Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World (University of South Carolina Press, 2017), 133-152.

Haunting the Religious Studies Classroom,” American Academy of Religion’s Spotlight on Teaching, October 2017.

Whales, Cannibals, and Second Nature,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3 (2015): 190-197.

The Study of American Religion, Looming Through the Glim,” Religion 42 (June 2012): 425-437.

The Work of Class in Southern Religion,” The Journal of Southern Religion 13 (2011).

“Highway,”Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality, December 7, 2011.

Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States,” with Kathryn Lofton and Chad Seales, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88 (2010): 1-39.