• History of Christianity
• Augustine and the History and Religions of Late Antiquity
• Medieval European History and Religion
• African American History and Religion
• American History and Religion
• History of Christianity, Film, and Popular Culture

• Paper titled “Augustine, Afrocentricity, and the Catholicization of Roman Africa: Recovering the significance of Augustine’s Hybrid Identity in the making of Catholic Orthodoxy” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Philadelphia, PA (1/2006)
• "Bishops, Early and Mediaeval" New Westminster Dictionary of Church History. eds. James O. Duke, Carter Lindberg, Christopher Ocker, Rebecca Harden Weaver, Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming.
• Comment given on papers in session on “Heresy, Authority, and Interpretations in Early Christianity” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Washington DC (1/2004)
• Paper titled “Preserve Your Chastity”: the Rhetorical Formulation of Internal and External Idol Smashing in the Preaching of Augustine.” Presented in the Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Section at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO (11/2001).
• Paper titled “The Leader of the Pack: A Glimpse of Augustine and the Campaign for Catholic Preeminence in Roman Africa in Relationship to Imperial Legislation.” Presented at the Annual Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University, Villanova, PA (9/2000).
• Paper titled “Augustine: Spin-Doctor of the Catholic Church.” Presented at the Princeton University Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies on Encounters Between Elites And Non-Elites In The Middle Ages: The Challenge Of New Methodologies 400 – 1400. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (4/2000).
• Review of The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson ed., in Koinonia (11:2, Fall 1999).
• Review of Gerd Ludemann’s Heretics, in Koinonia (9:1, Spring 1998).

• Augustine and the Catholicization of Roman Africa
• Christianity, Culture, and the Constitution in United States History
• Depictions of Person, Period and Place relevant to the study of the History of Christianity
• Father, Son, and Slave: A Controversial Social Metaphor for the Holy Spirit in Early Christianity
• Political Conceptions of God in the History of Christianity
• Postmodernism and Christianity

First UM Church, Adult Sunday Teacher, Salisbury, NC, 2002-Present
Moore’s Chapel AME Zion Church, Associate Minister, Salisbury, NC, 2000-Present
Baptist Chaplaincy, Princeton Univ., Associate Minister, Princeton, NJ, 1993‑1995
St. Matthew AME Church, Associate Minister, Philadelphia, PA, Summer 1993
Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, Associate Minister, Philadelphia, PA, 1992‑1993
St. Paul AME Church, Associate Minister, Philadelphia, PA, 1988‑ 1992

• American Society of Church History
• American Academy of Religion
• North American Patristics Society.