Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Kristin Du Mez's research areas include gender, religion, and politics in American history. She is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright, 2020), and A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford, 2015). Her current project is Live Laugh Love, a cultural history of white Christian womanhood.

She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Christianity Today, and Religion & Politics, and has been interviewed by NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, and numerous national and international outlets.