About
I am a professor of history at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York. My research is focused on Catholic intellectual history in the nineteenth-century in Germany, but I am interested in religious thought in Europe more broadly. I also work in the area of the history of philosophy, and have written a number of pieces on Franz Brentano. Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2005
M.A. Cornell University, 1999
B.A. St. Jerome’s College (Waterloo, Ont.), 1996 Publications
- “A Critique of Everyday Reason: Johann Michael Sailer and the Catholic Enlightenment in Germany,” Intellectual History Review – forthcoming.
- “Hopes and Dreams in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Brentano, History and the Jews,” Brentano Studien Eds. Guillaume Fréchette and Denis Fisette – forthcoming.
- “A Genealogy of Protestant Reason,” Archaeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation 1517-2017 Ed. David Luebke (Berghahn) — forthcoming.
- “Brentano’s Philosophy of Religion,” Routledge Handbook of Brentano and the Brentano School Ed. Uriah Kriegel, New York: Routledge, 2016.
- “Uncertainty and the Limits of Culture,” Journal of Religion and Society 17 (2015)
- “A.D. White and the History of a Religious Future,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 50.1 (March 2015)
- “Political Theology and Nineteenth Century Catholicism,” Nineteenth Century Contexts 36.3
- “The Madness of Franz Brentano: Secularization and the History of Philosophy,” History of European Ideas 39.2 (2013).
- “Memory and Morality,” Explorations in Media Ecology 11.3/4 (2012).
- “‘Our Direction is Forward not Backward’: German Catholics and the Revolution of 1848,” Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750–1850 (2012).
- “True and False Enlightenment: German Scholars and the Discourse of Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century,” Catholic Historical Review 97.1 (January 2011).
- “Intellectual History and the Return of Religion,” Historically Speaking 12.2 (2011).
- “Religion, Culture and the Intellectuals,” Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 6 (2010).
- “Let’s Talk About Religion,” Perspectives on History (May 2010).
- “Catholics and the First World War: Religion, Barbarism and the Reduction to Culture,” First World War Studies 1.2 (October 2010).
- “Restoring Faith in the Humanities: The Return of Religion,” Journal of Contemporary Thought 29 (Summer 2009).
- “Program for a New Catholic Wissenschaft: Devotional Activism and Catholic Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century,” Modern Intellectual History (November 2007).
- “Infallibility and Intentionality: Franz Brentano’s Diagnosis of German Catholicism” Journal of the History of Ideas (July 2007).
