Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cornell University
• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Oxford
• Master of Divinity (MDIV), Emory University
• Master of Arts (MA), Johns Hopkins University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

• American religious history: the many forms of Protestantism and its relation to American culture since the colonial period
• The Christian Realists
• Cooperation among Protestant and Jewish religious educators in the 1920s
• Character in 20th-century, mainline Protestantism

Selected Publications​

• "The Discipline and Habit of Theological Reflection," with Joan L. Murray and Mildred M. Best, Journal of Religion & Health, 41, no. 4 (Winter, 2002)
• "Authority and Grace: A Response to Robert Bellah," The Hedgehog Review, 4, no. 1 (Spring, 2002)
• "The Shift from Character to Personality in Mainline Personality, 1935-1945," Church History (September, 1998)
• "Character, Public Schooling, and Religious Education, 1920-1934," Religion and American Culture (Winter, 1997)
• Theologians of a New World Order: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Realists, 1920-1948 (NY: Oxford University Press, 1997)
• "Educating for God and Country: Cooperation among Jewish and Christian Religious Educators, 1927-1933,"Religious Education (Spring, 1996)
• "Intervention and International Organization: American Reformed Leaders and World War II," American Presbyterian Journal of Presbyterian History (Spring, 1996)
• "The Theological Discussion Group and Its Impact on American and Ecumenical Theology, 1920-1945, Church History (December, 1993)

Selected Awards and Grants

• Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute for Women in Higher Education and Faith-Based Organizations, 2001
• David E. Harrison Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1999
• Distinguished Faculty Award, Z Society, 1998