Devlin is an assistant professor of American History and Government at Sterling College in Kansas. She also serves as an Honored Visiting Graduate Professor at Ashland University in Ohio. She specializes in 19th century American legal history, Great Plains/West, and Women's Studies. Devlin was most recently awarded an Honorable Mention by the Organization of American Historians for her dissertation completed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2023, one chapter of which has been published in the Western Historical Quarterly, entitled "A 'Hired Girl' Testifies Against the 'Son of a Prominent Family': Bastardy and Rape on the Nineteenth-Century Nebraska Plains." Devlin is also the author of several book reviews related to the American West and is currently working on turning her dissertation into a book manuscript. She is a 2010 James Madison Memorial Fellow and a licensed 7-12 public school teacher in the state of Kansas.