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I am the faculty advisor for the Kappa Delta (history) club and Pathways Learning Community.

• 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

My research focuses on the relationship between the Catholic Church, race, and the city in the Archdiocese of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s.

• “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.