A historian of African-American religion, her research and teaching foci include religion and American slavery, religious exchanges and productions within the African Atlantic, race and religion in the U.S., and U.S. women’s religious histories. Her forthcoming book project entitled The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South explores female-centered sacred cultures among enslaved Africans and African-Americans in Georgia from the colonial period to the onset of the Civil War, and argues for a gendered methodological approach to the study of “slave religion.” Her work has received support from the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Forum for Theological Exploration. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College, and Master of Divinity and Ph.D. from Emory University.