EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 2003

Simon Fraser University, M.A., 1999

Simon Fraser University, B.A., 1997

APPOINTMENTS

University of Guelph - Assistant Professor of United States History, 2004 - present

Simon Fraser University - Visiting Assistant Professor, 2003-2004

PUBLICATIONS

How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

“Ottoman Empire Tourism and the American Flag: Patriotic Travel before the Age of

Package Tours, 1830-1870,” Journal of Tourism History 1, no. 1 (March 2009): 7-26.

“The Veiled Prophet’s Oriental Tale: St. Louis’ Famous Carnivals in Context, 1878-1895,”

Missouri Historical Review 103, no. 2 (January 2009): 90-107.

“Becoming Bodacious: Aufstieg und Fall eines Rodeobullen [Becoming Bodacious: The Rise and Fall of a Rodeo Bull,” in Ich, das Tier, edited by Jessica Ullrich, Friedrich Weltzien und Heike Fuhlbrügge (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2008), 235-48.

“A Facilitated Access Model and Ottoman Tourism” Annals of Tourism Research 34, no. 4 (October 2007): 1056-1077.

"Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago," American Quarterly 54, no. 4 (December 2002): 623-659.

"Mystery of The Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago," Religion and American Culture 12, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 123-166.