I am a historian of the early modern global Catholic mission. As of Fall 2024, I am an Assistant Professor of History at Southeast Missouri State University. My research and teaching areas include early modern Italy and the Atlantic World, Colonial Latin America, and Medieval Europe. My dissertation, which I defended at Penn State University in the Spring of 2024, won the Society for Italian Historical Studies’ Alan Reinerman Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript. I am currently preparing a monograph based on that dissertation.
My research and writing have been supported by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Mellon Foundation, the American Historical Association, the Sixteenth Century Society, and Yale’s Foreign Language and Area Studies program.
While I was in Italy on Fulbright, I was affiliated with the University of Roma Tre, the Central Jesuit Archives in Rome (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu/ARSI), and the State Archives of Ancona (Archivio di Stato di Ancona/ASAn).
Before my Ph.D., I attended Ball State University, where I completed my B.A. and M.A. in History.