She is a specialist in American religious history, with a focus on religion and sexuality. Her first book,Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights, is newly available from UNC Press. She is also a co-editor (with Bethany Moreton and Gill Frank) of a forthcoming anthology, tentatively titled Devotions and Desires: Religion and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century United States. She has served for the past five years as a core faculty with the Religion and Sexuality Summer Institute, a weeklong program for graduate students held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, and has also taught at Vassar College and the New College of Florida.