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American Religious History; Historiography, Long 19th Century, 20th-21st Century, American Methodism; World Christianity, Historiography, Methodology, American Christianity and Mission History, Global and Transnational Evangelicalism, Global/Worldwide Methodism; Women's Religious History, Feminist Methodology and Theology, Feminism and Women in Religion, Women's Ordination, Women and Methodism

:: "Reclaiming Silenced Voices: A Feminist Archival Methodology for Uncovering Women Preachers' Resistance to Patriarchal Power,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 42, no. 2 (2026): TBD. 

:: "The Francis Burns Effect: How a Transnational Missionary Transformed the Liberian Methodist Mission,” Methodist History 63, no.  2 (2026): 98-117. 

:: "Break[ing] the System: How the Methodist Student Movement Motivated a Generation Into Challenging Their Denominational Polity of Segregation." Wesley and Methodist Studies, Fall 2024.

:: Book review:"The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism: Emerging Trends from Everywhere to Everywhere," Reading Religion, eds. David Scott and Darryl Stephens, January 2024.

:: “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories"; General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, 8-part series on newly elected women bishops in the UMC, March 2023.

:: “Parity Among Methodist Clergy"; General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, September 13, 2022.

:: "Connexionalism Vital to Continued Ministry of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women"; General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, June 9, 2022.

Conferences & Presentations

:: Wesley and Methodist Studies Unit, Methodist Connectionalism in America and Beyond – A Future-Focused Retrospective on the Work and Influence of Russell E. Richey, American Academy of Religion, “Held Together: Methodist Connectionalism as Ecclesial Belonging”; Presenter, Denver, CO, November 2026

:: Rewilding Feminisms, National Women’s Studies Association, “Subverting from Within: Jeanne Audrey Powers and the Wild Feminism of Methodist Institutional Resistance”; Presenter, Atlanta, GA, November 2026

:: Wild Embodiments, National Women’s Studies Association, “The Most Dangerous Kind of Wild: Madeline Southard and the Feminist Politics of Institutional Respectability”; Presenter, Atlanta, GA, November 2026

:: Wesley and Methodist Studies Unit, “Women’s Ordination in Worldwide Wesleyan Traditions,” American Academy of Religion, “Minutes, Memorials, and Movements: Women’s Ordination and the Machinery of Methodist Polity”; Presenter, Online, June 2026

:: Perkins Summit for Faith and Learning, “She Preached Anyway: The 70 Years that Changed Methodist Ministry (1956–2026)” and “From Pulpit to Polity: How Belief Becomes Church Practice”; Invited Lecturer, Norman, OK, March 2026

:: Religion and the American Founding Conference, National Museum of American Religion, “Ordered Liberty: How Methodists Built a Durable Religious Public (1772–1784)”; Presenter, Brigham Young University, March 2026

:: Albright-Deering Lecture, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, “She Preached Anyway: How Methodist Women Turned Print and Polity into Power (1919–1956)”; Invited Lecturer, March 2026

:: Manchester Wesley Research Centre Panel, “Individuals and Institutions: Intersections of Gender, Culture, and Historiography,” American Academy of Religion, “Institutional Gatekeeping and Gendered Agency: How Methodist Women Navigated Ecclesial Patriarchy, 1880–1980”; Invited Presenter, November 2025

:: Un-Tied Methodism, General Commission on Archives and History, “”; Podcast Guest, hosted by Ashley Boggan, June 2026

:: Un-Tied Methodism, General Commission on Archives and History, “”; Podcast Guest, hosted by Ashley Boggan, May 2026

:: Un-Tied Methodism, General Commission on Archives and History, “”; Podcast Guest, hosted by Ashley Boggan, February 2025

:: Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit, “The Reception History of the Wesleys,” American Academy of Religion, “Reviving the Radical: The Legacy of the Methodist Student Movement within Wesleyan Tradition”; Presenter, San Diego, CA, November 2024

:: Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion, "All the World’s My Syllabus: Necessary Adjustments to Methodist Studies Curriculum in a Globalized Church”; Co-Presenter, San Antonio, TX, November 2023

:: History, Practice, and Theory Roundtable, Wesleyan Theological Society,“Methodical Medical Missions: A Wesleyan Consideration of Global Health Practices in Recent History”; Asbury Theological Seminary, March 2023

:: Historical Studies II Session, Wesleyan Theological Society, “The Francis Burns Effect: How a Transnational Missionary Transformed the Liberian Methodist Mission”; Asbury Theological Seminary, March 2023

:: 2022 Writing Collective, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Sexuality, “Advancing A New 'Woman Question:' M. Madeline Southard’s Diligent Advocacy for the Ecclesiastical Status of Women Preachers”; University of Rochester, October 2023

:: Un-Tied Methodism, General Commission on Archives and History,“Methodist Women in History”; Podcast Guest, May 2022

• Second Place, Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2026
• Program Committee, American Society of Church History
• Invited Lecturer, Albright-Deering Lectures, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 2026
• Member, The North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church (Deacon in Full Connection)
• Board Director, General Commission on the Status and Role of Women (The United Methodist Church)
• Executive Board Member and Saddlebag Award Committee Member, Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
• Steering Committee Member, Wesley and Methodist Studies, American Academy of Religion
• Alpha Alpha Alpha Honor Society, Boston University, 2021
• Jeanne Audrey Powers Award, Claremont School of Theology, 2019
• Editorial Board, Vulcan Historical Review, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007-2008
• Phi Alpha Theta (Chi Omicron), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007