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I'm a professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, specializing in the history and practice of North American Christianity. I track people's experiences of the divine, the miraculous, and the unseen, especially through material things and commercial practices. 

Lately I've been thinking about the connections that we imagine and foster globally. These themes are central in my book on Holy Land pilgrimage and the one I'm working on now, which explores Christian globalism through child sponsorship programs.

I am a faculty fellow with Concordia's Center for Sensory Studies and the Material Economies of Religion in the Americas Project at Yale's Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion.

I also co-edit the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion book series at Palgrave Macmillan, co-curate Anthrocybib, and do the occasional podcast for New Books in Religion.

New Stuff
Upcoming & Recent Talks
October 2019: 12th International Pilgrimage Conference, Spain // November 2019: Journal of Global Catholicism seminar, Chicago; American Academy of Religion, San Diego // February 2020: Princeton University // April 2020: University of Washington, Seattle.
























































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