American religious history; religion in the American West; interreligious contact; religious experience of racial/ethnic and religious minorities; Native American and African American religious history; Mormonism; gender and religion
New Testament studies; literary and social-historical criticism of the Gospels; religion in film; early Christian mysticism; theories and methods for the study of religion
religions of the United States with emphasis on new, marginal, or excluded groups and their relationships to the core American values; Buddhism in the U.S. over the last century; Mexican-U.S. border issues