Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A. Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023
  • M.T.S. Vanderbilt University, 2015
  • B.A. History, Spanish, Ouachita Baptist University, 2011

Areas of Interest

  • Modern Middle East History
  • Christian-Muslim Relations
  • Religion in American Political Discourse
  • Islam in the West

Language Intensives:

  • Arabic, Middlebury Language Schools, summer 2021
  • Syriac, Beth Mardutho, summer 2019
  • Arabic, Qalam wa Lawh, Morocco, summer 2018
  • Spanish, Universidad de Alicante, Spain, fall 2009
  • Spanish, Estudio Sampere, Spain, summer 2007