Education
M.Div., Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, in process.
Diploma in Anglican Studies, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
Certificate, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
B.A. summa cum laude in English and Religious Studies, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2011.
Senior Thesis Project: “Rending the Chasuble: A Genealogy of the Anglican Crisis,” committee chairs: Dr. Mark Hulsether and Dr. Misty G. Anderson
Publications
“Despised and Rejected: How Progressives Turn America’s Working Class into Fundamentalists,” The Progressive Christian 184.3 (Summer One, 2010): 11-13.
Select Honors, Awards, and Organizations
Top Collegiate Scholar, Chancellor’s Honors, UTK, 2011.
Extraordinary Academic Achievement, Chancellor’s Honors, UTK, 2011.
Outstanding Graduate, Department of English, UTK, 2011.
Ann Hight Gore Prize for Best Essay, Department of English, UTK, 2011.
Outstanding Senior Award, Department of Religious Studies, UTK, 2011.
Professional Promise Award, Department of Religious Studies, UTK, 2011.
Chancellor’s Honors Program, University of Tennessee.
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Select Work Experience
Intern in Ministry and Teaching, St. John’s Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2011.
Columnist, The Daily Beacon, the University of Tennessee’s Editorially Independent Student Newspaper, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2011.
Peer Minister for Education, Tyson House Episcopal-Lutheran Campus Ministry, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2009-2011.
