Biography
McMichael is completing her Ph.D. in religion from Duke University
specializing in American religious history. Her doctoral
dissertation, "Religion, Miss America, and the Construction of
Southern Womanhood," was funded, in part, by a Louisville
Dissertation Fellowship from the Louisville Institute, one of eight
such fellowships awarded nationally. McMichael earned her Bachelor
of Arts summa cum laude from Judson College and Master of Divinity
and Master of Theology degrees from Duke University. She has taught
for Judson College's Religion Department, Duke University's Thompson
Writing Program, and Duke Divinity School in addition to serving as
a visiting professor for Huntingdon during the 2010–2011 academic
year. She returned to the Huntingdon faculty as a full-time assistant professor in the fall of 2012.