She holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University in Psychology and Religion, an M.Ed. from The College of William & Mary in Higher Education Leadership, and an M.A. and PhD in Religion from Florida State University. Her research areas include Buddhist applied ethics, human rights, the problem of evil, and the just war tradition. Her most recent and upcoming publications are a chapter on religion and genocide in the Routledge History of Genocide (Routledge, May 2015), an article in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, titled “The 1994 Rwandan Genocide: The Religion/Genocide Nexus, Sexual Violence, and the Future of Genocide Studies” (forthcoming), and an encyclopedia article on Jainism and warfare (forthcoming).