About

Upcoming & Recent Talks

Not going anywhere for the foreseeable future, but I'm co-organizing a fantastic speaker series on Zoom this Fall with Concordia's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. It's called Sensing Atmospheres. Get in touch if you want to tune in.

I'm an anthropologist and historian of North American Christianity. My work tracks 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've just finished, which explores Christian globalism through child sponsorship programs.

I'm a professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, and I serve as faculty fellow with Concordia's Center for Sensory Studies & 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 the New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity website.

New Stuff

My latest book, Christian Globalism at Home, is out now with Princeton University Press
The surprising connections between death, mourning, & missions in the American Historical Review.
On Jewish affinity in The Forward. And a cross-cultural comparison of the Hebraic Style in Christian Nationalism for The Christian Nation Project.
On capitalism and choosing a child to sponsor in The Conversation US.