Research Interests

My research focuses on religious and intellectual history in the United States and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly radical groups.  Dissertation title:  “The Quest for a Utopian Solution to Social Problems of Race, Gender and Social Inequality:  A Comparative Study of Communal Societies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

Accomplishments

• Center for Communal Studies Graduate Paper Prize for “Vegans Gone Wild: The Failure of Militant Anarchist Communes in the Late 1960s
• Institute for Humane Studies, PhD Scholarship  2017-18
• George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Travel Grant Summer 2016