Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history.

She is the president of the Conference on Faith and History and is a member of Christians for Biblical Equality.

Barr has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on Christian history.

She is also the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, available on Amazon here.