Fields / Areas of Teaching:
Religion and Law, Ethics, Systematic Theology, United Methodist History & Doctrine, American Religious History, Wesleyan Theology, American Diversity, American Ethnic Studies, Liberation Theology, African-American Theology, Sociology of Religion
Wesleyan Theology
Supreme Court and Religious Freedom
Challenges of Multicultural Democracy
American Diversity: Family and Ethnicity
Self and Society
Intro to Ethics
Intro to Philosophy

Papers/Presentations:
"The Rehnquist Court and School Prayer: Exceptions to the Accommodationist Model of establishment Clause Jurisprudence," presented at American Academy of Religion regional meeting, Omaha, NE; Apr 2002

"Did Majority Religion Rule the Bench?" A Study of the Warren Court's Treatment of Minority Religions," presented at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO; Nov 2001

Review of The Americanization of Religious Minorities by Eric Mazur, in Sociology of Religion, Summer 2001

"Does Majority Religion Rule the Bench?" A Study of United States Supreme Court Religious Freedom Cases from the Perspective of Minority Religions," presented at Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL; Aug 1999

"Time to Completion of Degree in The University of Denver/Iliff Joint Ph.D. Program," published in The University of Denver's Best of Sociology, May 1999, and presented at University of Denver Sociology Symposium, Mar 1999

Grants / Awards:
AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-2002
Whitley Award for Sociology of Religion, 2000
Esther Edwards Fellowship, 2000
United Methodist Church Diakonia Fellowship, 1999-2000
Woman of Distinction, Kansas Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee, 1997

Current Research:
Book Manuscript: Does Majority Religion Rule the Bench: United States Supreme Court Treatment of Minority Religions, 1953 - completed and under review with two publishers

Article Manuscript: "Itumeleng Mosala's challenge to Black Theology in America," completed and under review with two journals