Professor of History and Religious Studies
I include here various unpublished writings of mine, conference papers and so on from the past few years.
* The anti-cult scare of the World War II years
* Not Just Jack the Ripper.
* To What Green Altar?
* Go and Sin No More: Therapy and Exorcism in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Deviance.
* Disease and Racial Frontiers in Charles Brockden Brown's Philadelphia.
* Terrorism as Heritage: How the Molly Maguires Became a Tourist Attraction
* John Brown and the American Terrorist Tradition.
* "Sticking up for Jews?” Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in the English Novel.
* The Outer Edges: Horror and the Media in the Late 1940s.
* Amphetamine Drugs in the Pacific Rim Region.
Occult City, a book proposal on alternative and New Age religion in the Philadelphia region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.