I am Associate Professor of History and Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA. I grew up in rural Michigan and have taught in Canada, onion-farmed in Texas, and lived in Scotland for several years during graduate school at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. I also have a degree in land surveying from Ferris State University and have worked in that field in Michigan and North Dakota. Inspired by the historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970), my research and writing concern the history of culture.