ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Helpers and Donors: Type-casting Moravians in 19th Century Biographies of John Wesley” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, August 2023.
“Imagined Moravians: Print culture, Origin Stories, and Transatlantic Evangelicalism” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2023.
“Digging out the Well: Herrnhut in the Pentecostal Imagination,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, April 2021.
“”As on the Day of Pentecost”: Moravians, the Holiness Movement, and the Thirteenth of August,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 2016.
“From Heretics to Saints: Moravians in the Evangelical Imagination,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 2012.
“Between Kuyper and Comenius: Could Pietist Virtues be Scholarly Virtues?” Biannual meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2012.
“Pious Prodigals: Sander, Müller, and the Formation of Brethren Identity,” Young Center Conference on Pietist and Anabaptist Intersections in Pennsylvania, June 2012.
“Radical Protestants and the Politics of Empire: Moravian Aspirations in British North America,” Coloquio Internacional: Historia, Protestantismo e Identidad en las Américas, Mexico City, Mexico, October 2011.
“Betwixt and Between: Moravians, Liminality and the Tragic Tale of Jacob Lischy” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music and History, October 2008.
“Winona Lake, Pennsylvania Mennonites, and the Long Arm of Popular Evangelicalism” Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, September 2008.
“Anglo-Moravians and ‘Tennentist’ Propaganda: The Nature of Moravian-New Light Relations in the Delaware Valley, 1741-1748,” Pietism Studies Group in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2008.
“How can this justly be called a catechism?’ Religious Instruction, Confessional Identity and Moravian Itinerants in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies,” Biennial Conference on Moravian History and Music, April 2006.
“The Irregular career of Pennsylvania Minister Jacob Lischy,” Midwest Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion, April 2005.
“Piety and Ecumenism in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2004.
LECTURES AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (non-conference)
“The Moravian Church, Billy Sunday, and the Renewal Tradition,” Faculty Scholarship Forum, Grace College, Spring 2026.
“When Billy Sunday Comes to Town: Moravians and America’s most Sensational Evangelist,” Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, November 11, 2025
“Moravians and the Evangelical Question” Walter Vivian Moses Lecture, Moravian Theological Seminary/Institute for Moravian History and World Heritage, October 29, 2025.
“Helpers and Donors: Type-casting Moravians in 19th Century Biographies of John Wesley” Faculty Scholarship Forum, Grace College, fall, 2023.
“The Legacy and Spiritual Sentiments of Alexander Mack Jr.” Seventh Brethren World Assembly, Elizabethtown, PA., July 2023.
“Lynching in Kosciusko County, Indiana and its Documentary Challenges” Faculty Scholarship Forum, Grace College, fall, 2021.
“From Sexual Deviants to Missionary Saints: How a public relations campaign changed perceptions of 18th century Moravians” Faculty Scholarship Forum, Grace College, fall 2015.
“Religious Pacifists and the American Revolution,” Fort Dearborn-Chicago Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, May 2015.
“The Brethren during the American Revolution,” Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, May 2015.
“True Confessions: Doing Institutional History at the Intersection of Brethrenism and Evangelicalism,” Symposium on Brethren Evangelicalism, Bridgewater College, March 2015.
“The Moravian Diaspora in the Pennsylvania Backcountry,” executive board meeting, Quadrangle Foundation, December 2014.
“Heroes and Heretics: Pietism in the Evangelical Imagination,” Snowden Lecture, Young Center for Pietist and Anabaptist Studies, November 2014.
“Curious Incidents in Pennsylvania’s Religious History,” First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster PA, October 2014.
Respondent for, “Denominational History and Methodology,” Biannual meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2014.
“Historic Religious Roots and the Future of Higher Education: Grace College and Theological Seminary,” Invited symposium presenter, Cedarville University, April 2014.
“Community, Family, Individual,” Fifth Brethren World Assembly, Brookville, OH, July 2013.
“Pacifism and Moravians in the Eighteenth Century,” Fort Wayne Seminar in American History, February 2013.
“A Separatist Creed: Grace Seminary and American Fundamentalism,” Heritage Forum, Grace College and Seminary, October 2012.
“Pacifism and Moravians in the Eighteenth Century,” Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, July 2012.
“Pietism in the Evangelical Imagination,” Missionary Church Historical Society meeting, Bethel College, May 2012.
“Anabaptism and Grace Brethren Heritage,” Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, April 2012.
Invited Respondent for, “Other Voices within Eighteenth-Century Moravian Communities” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music and History, October 2010.
“What’s Sex and Violence have to do with the Great Awakening?” Faculty Scholarship Forum, Grace College, fall 2008.
“Sacred Sex and the Question of Religious Radicalism in Colonial Pennsylvania,” Phi Alpha Theta Induction Meeting, Augustana University, November 2007.
“On the Margins of the Great Awakening: Theological Tensions between the Moravians and the Evangelical Movement,” guest lecture, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, February 2007.
“Lessons in Liminality: Graduate School as Rite of Passage,” Plenary address, Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (student conference), September 2006
“The Evangelicalization of American Mennonites,” Religion Graduate Student Organization forum, The University of Iowa, March 2002
