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Katie Christine Gaddini

Associate Professor of Sociology, University College London
Chapter Member: Bay Area SSN
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About Katie

Gaddini's research focuses on religion, gender and politics in America. She is writing a book on the role of right-wing Christian women in American politics from 1970-present based on eight years of in-depth, on-the-ground research. Her expertise includes American politics broadly; gender, religion and politics; Christian Nationalism; and right-wing women globally. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Review of Books, and given expert opinion to journalists at the New York Times, BBC News, and Christianity Today.

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Contributions

The Woman Whose Crusade Gave Today’s Book-Banning Moms a Blueprint

Commentary,

Elise Stefanik Is Being Underrated as a Trump VP Pick

Commentary,

In the News

Opinion: "Politics Used to Be the Evangelical Man’s Domain. Not Anymore," Katie Christine Gaddini, The San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2022.

Publications

"Socialism Sucks: Campus Conservatives, Digital Media, and the Rebranding of Christian Nationalism" (with Catherine Tebaldi). Information, Communication & Society (2024): 1-22.

Explores how capitalism, Christianity, and conservatism are brought together and branded for youth in the US.

"Defensive Racism and Christian Righteousness in the Time of Trump" Women's Studies International Forum 101 (2023).

Interrogates the relationship between Christianity, race and politics in the US through 'defensive racism' — a multi-modal form of anti-Black racism that displaces racism, denies its existence toward Black Americans, and deflects racism away from white people.