I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at MSU whose current project focuses on how the importation of contraband items into 1970s Leningrad was valuable to establishing an identity for rock subculture groups. I am also working on a project detailing the role of corn during Khrushchev’s agricultural reforms. Previous projects have focused on the importance on Islam in establishing and defining identity in Chechnya.

Ph.D in History, Mississippi State University, 2022 (projected).
Examination Fields: Late Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe, Empire Power Identity and Conflict, and 20th Century Religious History.
 M.A. in History, East Tennessee State University, 2014.
B.A. in History, East Tennessee State University, 2011.

Instructor of Record, Early Western World, Mississippi State University, Fall 2019.

Instructor of Record, US History to 1877,Mississippi State University, Fall 2019.
Instructor of Record, US Since 1877, Mississippi State University, Fall 2019.
Instructor of Record, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Summer 2019

Teaching Assistant, World Civilizations Since 1500, Mississippi State University, Spring 2019

Teaching Assistant, Early Western World, Mississippi State University, Fall 2018

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University, Summer 2018

Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2017

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University, Summer 2017

Teaching Assistant, World Civilizations Since 1500, Mississippi State University, Spring 2017

Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2016

Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, East Tennessee State University, Fall 2014

Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, East Tennessee State University, Spring 2014

Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, East Tennessee State University, Fall 2013

Review: McDermott, Kevin & Stibbe, Matthew (eds), De-Stalinising Eastern Europe. The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s Victims after 1953. Basingstoke & New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xiv + 262pp., £60.00 h/b in Europe-Asia Studies Vol: 68 No: 7 (September 2017)

Article: "The Wolf's Crescent: Inventing Religion in Post-Soviet Chechnya" The Welt Des Islams (In Progress)

Invited Presentation: “Khrushchev’s Debacle: Corn and the Destruction of the Soviet Union.” University of Helsinki Environmental Humanities Forum. January 2019.

James W. Garner Scholarship, Mississippi State University, 2016-2019
WPIA Fellow, Mississippi State University, 2018-2019
Graduate Assistantship, Mississippi State University, 2016-2019
Silvers Fund, Research Grant, Department of History, East Tennessee State University, 2014
Graduate Assistantship, East Tennessee State University, 2014
Tuition Scholarship, East Tennessee State University, 2013-2014
Tuition Scholarship, East Tennessee State University, 2013 - 2014.

Member, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Member, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Member, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Member, Golden Key Society