Writer. Scholar. Teacher.

I am a scholar of American religion studying health, wellness, and consumer culture in 20th and 21st century-United States.

I am currently writing a book, Spiritual Exercises: Fitness and Religion in Modern America, in which I follow exercisers and fitness entrepreneurs online and into the studio as they form community and seek fulfillment in mind, body, and spirit. Using the popular fitness brands CrossFit and SoulCycle as case studies, I observe how the structuring logics of American Christianity operate in the consumerist landscape of health, wellness, and fitness to understand how religion is enlisted in the politicized work of reforming the body.