Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She’s the author of “A Religious Feminist – Who Can Find Her? Historiographical Challenges from the National Organization for Women,” and “Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America”
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