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American Religious History; Wesleyan/Methodist Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies; History of Christianity; Methodist Doctrine, History, and Sexuality; Gender, Race, and Religion; Religion and Contemporary Society; Feminist Theology and Methodology; Social Justice and Religion; LGBTQ+ Studies in Methodism

:: Wesleyan Vile-tality: Reclaiming the Heart of Methodist Identity. Abingdon Press, forthcoming Spring 2025

:: Calling on Fire: Reclaiming the Method of Methodism. Abingdon Press, forthcoming Fall 2025

:: American Methodism: A Compact History: Revised and Updated. Abingdon Press, 2022

:: #Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights. Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020

:: Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality. New Room Books, 2018

:: “American Methodism and ‘The New Morality,’” Methodist History, 56:3, April 2018

:: “A God-Sent Movement: Methodism, Contraception, and the Protection of the Methodist Family, 1870–1968,” Methodist History, 53:2, January 2015

:: Book review of Do Everything by Christopher Evans, Methodist History

:: Book review of Gods of Indian Country by Jennifer Graber, Methodist History

:: Book review of Wide Views and a Loving Heart: The Life and Ministry of Bishop Levi Scott by Joseph DiPaolo, Methodist History

:: Book review of The Spirit’s Tether by Mary Ellen Konieczny, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 2015

Conferences & Presentations

:: Panel: The Perils and Promises of Institutions - Protestant Women, Mission, and Reform in the Guilded Age through the mid-20th Century, American Society of Church History,“Redefining Boundaries: Jeanne Audrey Powers, Inclusivity, and American Methodism”; Presenter, Chicago, IL, January 2025 

:: Wesleyan-Methodist Studies Unit, “The Reception History of the Wesleys,” American Academy of Religion, “Reviving the Radical: The Legacy of the Methodist Student Movement within Wesleyan Tradition”; Presenter, San Diego, CA, November 2024

:: Wesleyan-Methodist Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion, "All the World’s My Syllabus: Necessary Adjustments to Methodist Studies Curriculum in a Globalized Church”; Co-Presenter, San Antonio, TX, November 2023

:: History, Practice, and Theory Roundtable, Wesleyan Theological Society,“Methodical Medical Missions: A Wesleyan Consideration of Global Health Practices in Recent History”; Asbury Theological Seminary, March 2023

:: Historical Studies II Session, Wesleyan Theological Society, “The Francis Burns Effect: How a Transnational Missionary Transformed the Liberian Methodist Mission”; Asbury Theological Seminary, March 2023

:: 2022 Writing Collective, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Sexuality, “Advancing A New “Woman Question:’ M. Madeline Southard’s Diligent Advocacy for the Ecclesiastical Status of Women Preachers”; University of Rochester, October 2023

:: Podcast Guest, Un-Tied Methodism (General Commission on Archives and History),“Methodist Women in History”; May 2022

:: History III Session, History Graduate Student Association Conference, “Advancing A New “Woman Question:’ M. Madeline Southard’s American Association of Women Preachers and Their Push for Women’s Right to the Pulpit”; University of California, Irvine, April 2022

:: Theology and History Session, Boisi Center’s Graduate Conference; “Three Simple Rules: How Birmingham Methodists Conveyed a Wesleyan Theological Framework and Reframed Their Practices to Save Lives From Both Cholera and Influenza”; Boston College's Boisi Center (Virtual), February 2021

:: Women, Gender, and Religion Session, Southeast Commission on the Study of Religion (AAR Southeast Region); “Shattering the Stained-Glass Ceiling: How Women in the Southeast Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church Reached and Influenced the Region’s Highest Office”; University of Georgia, February 2020

:: Panel: “What’s in a Name?: Reclaiming Methodist,” Oxford Institute for Theological Studies, August 2024; multiple other venues (Foundry UMC, Festival of Wisdom and Grace, Iliff School of Theology, Methodist Theological School of Ohio, etc.), 2024

:: Presentation: “Wesleyan Vile-tality: A Vile Past to a Vital Future,” Council of Bishops, SEJ Cabinet Consultation, various Annual Conferences (2022–2024)

:: “Race in Methodism,” 2022 Council of Bishops Meeting

:: Tipple Lecture, Drew Theological Seminary, October 2022

:: Western PA AC, Anti-Racism Summit, October 2022

:: Pickett’s Chapel Rededication, TN, February 2023

:: WNC “Let’s Talk Race” Webinar, June 2023

:: Wesley Pilgrimage, July 2023

:: The UMC and Indigenous Boarding Schools, UM Historical Convocation, Bozeman, MT, September 2024

:: Podcast Guest, Nevertheless, She Preached, COSROW, March 2021

:: Podcast Guest, Today Explained, “Separation of church and church,” May 2024

:: Podcast Guest, On Point Radio, “The Splintering of The United Methodist Church,” May 23, 2024

:: Podcast Guest, Faithful Politics Podcast, “Breaking Barriers: LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Methodist Church,” June 8, 2024

• General Secretary of Archives and History, General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church
• Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, High Point University (2019–2020)
• Director of Ministerial Formation, Institute for Early Career Clergy Development, Hood Theological Seminary
• Director of United Methodist Studies, Hood Theological Seminary
• Member, Regular speaker and contributor at major Methodist conferences and theological gatherings
• Recognized leader in Methodist Studies, Gender Justice, and Church History
• Frequent podcast and media contributor on contemporary Methodist issues and LGBTQ+ inclusion