Her research and teaching interests in American religious history include African American religion, religion in the American South, gender and sexuality, and religion and politics. She is revising her first book manuscript, currently titled Southern Redemption: Race, Religion and Politics from Emancipation to Segregation. Her research has earned support from the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Graduate Society at Harvard University, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. She earned an A.B. in Religion from Princeton University in 2008 and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2015.