She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in May 2013 and her MTS from Harvard Divinity School in 2007. She has published articles in The New England Quarterly and Nova Religio. Her first book project, Between Scripture and Progress: American Unitarianism and the Protestant Search for Religious Authority, is due from Lexington Books in 2015. The book examines the question “does Protestantism have an established sense of religious authority” through the lens of nineteenth century Unitarian history. Her research involves Unitarians and the Bible, “alternative” scriptures, and liberal Christian and Trancendentalist women and social reform.