Cassandra L. Yacovazzi is an assistant professor of History at the University of South Florida where she also teaches classes on American history. Yacovazzi's focus is women's history, religious history, popular culture and business history. She has also published a book on opposition to nuns and convents in antebellum America entitled "ESCAPED NUNS" (Oxford UP, 2018). Her current book project explores the life of Mary Kay Ash and the business of Mary Kay Cosmetics, where she examines the intersection of Mary Kay and feminism, the culture of women in direct sales, and relation between faith and capitalism.