She is the author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (2010), a history of marriage counseling, social science, religion, and American culture in the twentieth century. She is currently writing a book about religious conversion and American identity politics in the twentieth century and editing a collection of essays on the history of heterosexuality in North America. A former postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, she was a visiting fellow there during the 2016–2017 academic year.