I am a historian of American politics, religion, and Christian history, specialising in the history of minority faiths and the U.S. constitutional order. I currently serve as associate professor and chair of the history department of Brigham Young University, where I teach courses on U.S. history, religion in America, and the history of Christianity. I trained as an undergraduate in Near Eastern Studies and history and received master’s and doctoral degrees in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was a fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Indianapolis, 2007-09), editor-in-chief of Mormon Studies Review (2013-18), visiting professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University (California) in 2015, visiting distinguished professor of Mormon Studies at the University of California—Santa Barbara in 2020, and executive director of BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship from 2016-23. In summer 2025, I led an intensive study abroad program for American students in the UK for a course on “British Sacred Space.”