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I received my PhD in History from the University of Colorado in Boulder in May 2021. My current research focuses on portable devotion and Mass kits used by US military chaplains in the World Wars. More can be found about my publications at portabledevotion.com.

This research has been generously funded by the Trinity University Humanities Collective, the Mellon Initiative, the Trinity University Department of History, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and the American Academy of Religion.

Recent Publications

“The Eucharist in a Suitcase: The Chaplains’ Aid Association and Catholic Material Culture in World War I.” American Catholic Studies 136:2 (2025): 25-42.

“Relic Movement, Anathema, and Crusade in Pilgrimage (2017).” In Law, Justice, and Society: Teaching the Middle Ages Through Film, edited by Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron, 22-35. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.

“Some Things Between Us.” Collecting Religion. September 2024.

“Inscribing Devotion between the Medieval and the Modern.” The Genealogies of Modernity. July 2023.

Book Review: Leah Shopkow, The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) for Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (2022), 72.

“Portable Mass Kits and American Catholics.” The Genealogies of Modernity. May 2022.

“Moving Altars from the Middle Ages to WWII.” The Genealogies of Modernity. February 2021.

“The Medieval Portable Altar Database.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. November 2020.

Book Review: Cynthia Hahn, Passion R

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Expertise by Geography

United States, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Military, Religion, World War I, World War II