She will defend her dissertation, titled “Ghost Dance Religion and National Identity,” in the fall of 2015 in the Graduate Department of Religion at Florida State University. This work traces the history of the Ghost Dance movement to explore how authority is structured and exerted through prophetic religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More generally, her research and teaching focus on the intersections of religion and politics in U.S. culture, with special emphasis on Native American traditions and the history of the American West.