Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Kristin Kobes Du Mez is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She is the author of A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (OUP 2015), and Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (W. W. Norton’s Liveright Publishing, 2020). She has written for the Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Christian Century, The Daily Beast, and Religion & Politics, and has been interviewed on NPR, CTV, the CBC, the BBC, and by the New York Times, the Economist, CNN.com, the Christian Post, PBS News Hour, and the AP, among other outlets. She blogs at Patheos’s Anxious Bench and her online writings are available at kristindumez.com; she is on Facebook and Twitter @kkdumez.