You are invited for an evening of learning with Dr. Beth Allison Barr. Hors d'oeuvres will begin at 5:30pm in the lobby of the Clay Firehouse Campus, with a presentation to follow at 6pm. Cost for the event is $15 in advance, which includes food and drink. (Cost at the door is $20.) Childcare is provided.

Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University where she teaches undergraduate courses on European women, medieval history, and world history. Her graduate courses include women and religion in the medieval and early modern world, medieval sermons, medieval Britain, and feminist theory.

Barr received her B.A. in History (with a minor in Classics) from Baylor University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has served as the president of the Conference on Faith and History and president of the Texas Medieval Association, as well as remaining an active member of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, American Society of Church History, and Sixteenth Century Society.

She is the author of the bestselling The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth and The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England. Additionally, she is the co-editor of The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation and Faith and History: A Devotional.

NPR and The New Yorker have featured Dr. Barrs work, and she writes regularly on The Anxious Bench, a religious history blog on Patheos, and has contributed to Religion News Service, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, Baptist News Global.

Since receiving tenure in the History department in 2014, Dr. Barr has served as Graduate Program Director in History (2016-2019), received a Centennial Professor Award (2018), and served as an Associate Dean in the Baylor Graduate School (2019-2022).

In addition to all this, Beth is also a Baptist pastor's wife and mom of two great kids.