Darryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Melani McAlister about American evangelicals, international missions, and national identity. Melani is professor of American Studies and International Affairs at the George Washington University, in Washington DC,  and the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 and The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals, along with many popular and scholarly articles. She is currently editing volume 4 of The Cambridge History of America and the World.

You can read more about Melani's work here:

"Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Fundamentalism's New World Order," South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102(4):773-798 

Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) 

"US Evangelicals and the Politics of Slave Redemption as Religious Freedom in Sudan," South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (1): 87–108 

The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)