Leslie Dorrough Smith is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Avila University (Kansas City, MO). Her research focuses broadly on how evangelicalism and Christian conservatism impact American cultural attitudes on sex, gender, and race. She is the author of two books (both with Oxford University Press) on these topics: Compromising Positions: Political Sex Scandals and American Christianity (2019) and Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America (2014).