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  • Ph.D. Student

Biography

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”

Awards & Honors

  • 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