His first book, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard University Press, 2007), won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press, awarded annually to the best book in any discipline by a first-time author. He is currently working on a new book, American Evangelicals and the Politics of Apocalypse (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2012), which examines the relationships among American evangelicalism, apocalyptic thought, and political activism in times of national crisis and war; and a textbook, Jerry Falwell and the Origins of the Religious Right, which will be part of the popular Bedford Series in History and Culture (Bedford/St. Martin's, forthcoming 2012). He has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation.