Her first book,
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, a biography of American diplomat and Yale professor
Charles Hill, was published in 2006 and reviewed by
The Boston Globe and
Michiko Kakutani in
The New York Times. Her second book,
Apostles of Reason, examines the history of American
evangelicalism since 1945. Her work has appeared in
The New York Times,
Slate,
Time,
The Boston Globe,
The New Republic,
The Dallas Morning News, and the
Toledo Blade. She is an associate professor of history at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her third book,
Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump, examines the impact of
charisma as both a religious and political force in American life from the colonial period to the 21st century. ==Personal life==