Dr. Leah Payne (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Portland Seminary. Payne's forthcoming book, The Rise and Fall of Contemporary Christian Music (Oxford University Press), explores how popular music and American marketing culture shapes the theological and political imagination of American evangelicals. Her first book, Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) won the Pneuma: the Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 2016 Book Award. Payne’s research and teaching has been supported by the Louisville Institute and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and she has published research examining the intersection of theology, politics, and mass media in the United States in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Journal of Ritual Studies, Fashion Theory, and Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. Payne's work analyzing religion, politics, and popular culture in the United States has appeared in The Washington Post, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today.