ARTICLES

“‘Jews, Heathens, and Other Dissenters’: Governing Religion in the English Atlantic World, 1614-1790” Jewish Social Studies Vol. 27, No. 3 (Fall 2022), 32-57.

“Simon Gerstmann’s War: Religion, Loyalty, and Memory in the Post-Civil War Claims Courts,” with Adam H. Domby, Journal of Southern History Vol. 87, No. 4 (November 2021), 565-602.

“Jews and Sexuality in the Americas, 1519-1880,” with Laura A. Leibman, Religion Compass (June 2021).

“Mobile Jews and Porous Borders: A Transnational History in the Nineteenth Century,” PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany 27, Special Issue on Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies (2021), 25-38.

“Antisemitism, American Jewish Historians, and their Publics,” American Jewish History, Vol. 105, No. 1/2, (January/April 2021), 213-217.

“Judges and Jews: Congregational Conflict and the Protestant Secular in 19th-Century America,” ReligionVol. 48 No. 4 (2018), 659-677.

“Jews in Church: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in Nineteenth-Century America,” Special Issue on “Jewish Experience in America,” Religions 2018, 9, 237.

“‘Let us Endeavor to Count Them Up’: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Jewish Demography,” American Jewish History (Volume 101, Number 4, October 2017), 419-440.

“People of the Press: Religious Periodicals and the Creation of American Judaism,” in The Press and the Pulpit: Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). 

“‘The Kingdom of Israel in this Town’: Jewish Merchants in Antebellum Charleston,” Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina 22, no. 1 (Spring 2017), 8-10.

“Mohalim, not Missionaries: Outsider and Insider Bodies in Southern Religious History,” Journal of Southern Religion (18) (2016): jsreligion.org/vol18/rabin.

“Working Jews: Hazanim and the Labor of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Volume 25, Number 2 (Summer 2015), 178-217.

“‘A Nest to the Wandering Bird’: Iowa and the Creation of American Judaism, 1855-1877,” Annals of Iowa, Volume 73, Number 2, (Spring 2014), 91-117.

“’The Advent of a Western Jewess:’ Rachel Frank and Jewish Female Celebrity in 1890s America,” Nashim: The Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues Number 22 (Fall 2011), 111-135.

BOOK REVIEWS

A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America, by Kirsten Fermaglich, Contemporary Jewry Vol. 39, No. 1 (March 2019), 177-9.

The Chance at Salvation: A History of Conversion in America, by Lincoln A. Mullen, American Jewish History Vol. 103, No. 1 (January 2019, 106-109).

The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society, by John Fea, The Journal of Religion, Vol. 98, No. 2 (April, 2018), 272-4.

African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom, by Sylvester Johnson, H-AmRel, H-Net Reviews, July 7, 2017.

Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews, edited by Regina D. Sullivan and Monte Harrell Hampton, H-AmRel, H-Net Reviews, April 25, 2016.

Jewish Atlantic World website, Southern Jewish History, Volume 18 (Fall 2015), 197-201.

Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism by Peter Adams, American Jewish History, Volume 99, Number 3 (July 2015), 267-8.

“Peddler on the Hoof,” review of Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, by Hasia Diner, Marginalia Review of Books, March 31, 2015.

We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History by Gary Phillip Zola, Annals of Iowa, Volume 73, Number 4 (Winter 2014), 61-62.

Messianism, Secrecy, and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life by Laura Arnold Leibman, Journal of Jewish Identities, Issue 7, Number 2 (July 2014), 91-2.