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Methodist History and Theology, Women’s Studies, Theory and Practice of Evangelism

Women's Studies, History of American Christianity, Wesleyan Studies, Contextual Theology, Evangelism, Ecumenism

:: No Man’s Land: The International Methodist Deaconess Movement, 1874-1918 (Cascade Books, 2025).

:: “Christian Connection Women as Biblical Interpreters in Antebellum America, 1820–1841,” co-authored with John R. Levison. Church History 94, no. 2 (June 2025): 271–295.

:: “Sarah Grimké as Biblical Commentator,” co-authored with John R. Levison. Harvard Theological Review 118, no. 1 (January 2025): 134–158.

:: Models of Evangelism (Baker Academic, 2020).

:: Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era (NYU Press, 2014).

:: Sex, Gender, and Christianity, co-edited with John R. Levison (Cascade Books, 2012).

:: Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Two-time recipient of the Wesleyan Theological Society’s Smith/Wynkoop Book Award (2015 & 2026); recipient of the Wesleyan Theological Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2025); and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the General Commission of Archives and History, UMC (2022); Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University (2018) and the Manchester Wesleyan Research Centre (2016); Past president, Wesleyan Theological Society (2018) and the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church (2014-2017); Editorial board member: Wesleyan and Methodist Explorations Series (Cascade Books) and Methodist Review; and Co-Principal Investigator, Thriving Congregations Grant from the Lilly Endowment.