A diplomatic historian by training, she has research interests in the history of U.S. foreign relations, religion, and the international human rights movement. Her current book project, To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelicals, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Relations, illuminates the complex and deeply significant ways in which religion and religious groups interacted with foreign policy, political culture, and the international human rights regime to shape America’s role in the modern world.