• McMaster University, Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 2013–
• Trinity Western University, M.A. in Biblical Studies, 2011–2013
• Emory University, M.Div. in Scripture and Interpretation, 2007–2011
• Huntington University (IN), B.A. in Biblical Studies, 2002–2006

Teaching experience

• Introduction to Hebrew Bible, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University (Fall 2016)

TAing experience

• Foundations: Life the University, and a Bit of Everything. Instructor: Mark Busser (2018)
• Archaeology and the Bible. Instructor: Dan Machiela (2017)
• Health, Healing, and Religion. Instructor: Chris Emms (2017)
• What on Earth Is Religion? Instructor: Philippa Carter (2015–2016)
• Bible and Film. Instructor: Jonathan Bernier. (2015)
• Health, Healing, and Religion. Instructor: Janet Ross. (2014)
• Bible and Film. Instructor: Jonathan Bernier. (2014)
• Judaism: The Jewish People in the Modern World. Instructor: Louis Greenspan. (2013)

Publications

• “One Work or Three? A Proposal for Reading 1QS-1QSa-1QSb as a Composite Work,” Dead Sea Discoveries 25.2 (2018): 141–77.
• “A Case Study in Professional Ethics Concerning Secondary Publications of Unprovenanced Artefacts: The Re-Edition DSS F.Instruction1,” Distant Worlds Journal, Forthcoming 2017.
• “A Fragment of Instruction,” in Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection, ed. Emanuel Tov, Kipp Davis, and Robert Duke, Publications of the Museum of the Bible 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 222–36.

Book Reviews

• Review of Trine B. Hasselbalch, Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns: Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran, Early Judaism and Its Literature 42 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015) in Ancient Jew Review, 2017.
• Review of The Orthodox Study Bible, in Canadian Theological Review, Winter 2012.

Conference Presentations

• “Visualizing Material Reconstructions in Three Dimensions: Some Insights on the Placement of 1QM Frg. 9 from a Scrollable Digital Model,” International Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Helsinki, Finland; August 1, 2018.
• “Wrapping Up the War Scroll: Some Reflections on Digitally Rolling Material Reconstructions to Aid in Fragment Placements," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Regina, SK; May 27, 2018.
• “Wrapping Up the War Scroll: A Scrolling Three-Dimensional Model of 1QM,” Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem; January 25, 2018.
• "Morawe's Hymnic Confession Psalms in the Hodayot: A Reconsideration of the Category in Light of Additional Formal Elements in 1QH^a 20–28," Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; May 15, 2017.
• “Divinely Imposed Silence in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) from Qumran: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speechlessness of the Psalmist and His Opponents,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX; November 21, 2016.
• “Testing Stegemann’s Placement of Fragment 10 in the Reconstruction of 1QHodayot^a: Two Digital Approaches,” Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; May 29, 2016.
• “Meditating on Purpose: The Use of Poetic Superscriptions to Set Audience Expectations in Proverbs 1:1–7 and 1QH^a 20:7–14a,” Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON; May 31, 2015.
• “Insights from Superscriptions: A New Consideration in the Relationship of the Community Rule and the Rule of the Congregation,” Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON; May 25, 2014.
• “Hebrew Bible Superscriptions: Indicators of Literary Dependency,” Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC; June 2, 2013.
• “The Sepphoris Synagogue Floor Mosaic: Creating a Matrix of Continuity,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA; November 21, 2012.

Invited Panel Presentations

• “A Case Study in Professional Ethics concerning Secondary Publications of Unprovenanced Artefacts: The New Edition DSS F.Instruction1,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA; November 20, 2017.
• “Presentation of an Unprovenanced Fragment of the Wisdom Text ‘Instruction’,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX; November 20, 2016.
• “The GSI Fragment of Instruction and other Dead Sea Scrolls,” Publication Meeting of the Green Collection, Atlanta, GA; November 24, 2015.  
• “DSS F.Instruction1: A Palaeographic Examination of Possible Matches with Other Manuscripts of Instruction,” Publication Meeting of the Green Collection, San Diego, CA; November 24, 2014.
• “DSS F.Instruction1: A Non-Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Fragment in the Green Collection,” Publication Meeting of the Green Collection, Baltimore, MD; November 26, 2013.

Poster Presentations

• “A Fragment of a Jewish Wisdom Text Called "Instruction": Some Reflections on Identifying an Unprovenanced Fragment for the Museum of the Bible,” Poster Presentation at the 50th Anniversary of McMaster Religious Studies Celebration, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; May 14, 2016.
• “Reassessing the Reconstruction of 1QHodayot^a: Using Animated Digital Modeling to Test the Results of the Stegemann Method for Reconstructing Scrolls” Poster Presentation at ManuSciences ‘15, A Franco-German Summer School, Benediktinerinnenabtei Frauenwörth, Frauenchiemsee, Germany; September 6-23, 2015.

Invited Campus or Departmental Talks

• “A Visualization for Reconstructions of Rolled Manuscripts: A Scrollable Model of the War Scroll,” Graduate Colloquium, Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; April 26, 2018.
• “Rolling Back Assumptions about 1QHodayota: Scrolling, Folding, and Wadding Reconstructions in Blender,” University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; June 6, 2017.
• "One Text or Three? A Proposal for a Unified Reading of 1QS-1QSa-1QSb," The Scrollery Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; April 6, 2017.
• “Approaching Manuscripts Digitally: A Retrospect on a Year of Applying Digital Scholarship to a Research Problem in 1QHodayot^a,” McMaster Ancient Judaism and Christianity Seminar, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; March 30, 2016.
• “The Puzzling Case of Fragment 10 in the Thanksgiving Hymns Manuscript 1QHodayot^a: A Case Study about Two Computer-Aided Approaches for Evaluating the Placement of Fragments in Dead Sea Scrolls Reconstructions,” Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Colloquium, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; March 17, 2016.

Academic Service

• 2016–2017 Graduate Student Member of the Faculty Search Committee, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, 2016-2017