Her book, African-American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945, was published by Harvard University Press in 1998. She has written entries for the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History and the Encyclopedia of New York City, and co-edited This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography (Routledge, 1996). She has published articles in Church History and Semeia, and serves as a contributing editor for Afro-American Religion: A Documentary History Project. She is also editor of The North Star, an electronic journal devoted to the history of African-American religion. She received a doctorate in religion from Princeton University in 1992.