I am the faculty advisor for the Kappa Delta (history) club and Pathways Learning Community.
Education Training
PhD, History, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016
MA, History, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2009
MBA, Canisius College, 2007
BA, History and Economics, Canisius College, 2006
Research Interests
My research focuses on the relationship between the Catholic Church, race, and the city in the Archdiocese of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s.
Publications
“A Missed Opportunity in the Catholic War on Poverty: Chicago’s Archdiocesan Inter-Parish Movement.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 115, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 9-40.
“‘We’re not killing you; we are simply withdrawing your oxygen’: Chicago’s Catholic School Crisis and the Providence-St. Mel Debate.” U.S. Catholic Historian 40, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 89-109.
“‘People from the city and suburbs talked and listened’: The Presentation – St. Joseph Twinning and Sharing Relationship in the 1970s.” Chicago History: The Magazine of the Chicago History Museum XLVI, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 20-29.
“To ‘Prepare White Youngsters’: The Catholic School Busing Program in the Archdiocese of Chicago.” American Catholic Studies 128, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 51-77.
“‘My children feel rejected by their Church’: ‘Managed Integration’ at St. Philip Neri Parish, Chicago.” U.S. Catholic Historian 35, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 81-97.
