She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England � (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006). � At the CSR she will be working on a book manuscript, “Outward Adornment: Plain Dress in American Protestantism,” that uncovers the ways many groups, from early New England congregationalists to twentieth-century pentecostals, attempted to regulate clothing, hairstyles, and so on in order to materialize their particular understandings of worldliness, holiness, gender, social status, and group identity and to negotiate their relationships to larger cultural influences, such as fashion, commercialization, consumerism, and feminism.