Beth Allison Barr is a historian, author, speaker, and advocate reexamining the role of women in the church and history. She serves as the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University, where she specializes in medieval history and church history. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beth is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, a groundbreaking work challenging centuries of patriarchal interpretation in Christian tradition. Beyond academia, she is also a pastor’s wife and mother of two, bringing both scholarly insight and personal conviction to her writing and advocacy.