Cynthia with Molly Worthen Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Molly Worthen is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a freelance journalist. She received her PhD from Yale University. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history. Her new book, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Trump, comes out next spring and is available for preorder on Amazon. She has  created audio and video courses for The Great Courses on the history of charisma and the history global Christianity since the Reformation, and both of those are available on Audible. Worthen writes regularly about religion, politics, and higher education for the New York Times and has also written for the New Yorker, Slate, the Atlantic, and other publications.