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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Kristin Kobes Du Mez (born 1976) is an American historian who is currently a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University. She is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (2020).

Early Life and Education
Du Mez was born in 1976 to Wayne and Helen Kobes in Sioux Center, Iowa. She moved to Tallahassee, Florida during high school. She then spent a year as an exchange student in Germany before returning to Iowa to attend Dordt College, where she graduated with a degree in History and German in 1997. She graduated with her PhD in American History from Notre Dame in 2004. After graduate school, she taught at Williams College and spent time at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mt. Holyoke before taking a position as Assistant Professor of History at Calvin University, where she has since worked. She was appointed the Chair of the Department of History in 2016, which she held for one year.

Work
Du Mez’s research focuses on the intersections of gender, religion, and politics in recent American history. In 2015, she published A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism which details the life and theology of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), a social reformer and anti-trafficking activist. In 2020, she published Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, a study of American white evangelical views of masculinity from the Cold War to the present that culminated in the election of Donald Trump. The book received national attention; it was reviewed by NPR, Vox, and the Boston Globe. Scot McKnight of Christianity Today called it “paradigm-influencing.” Du Mez has guest written articles about American evangelicalism in the Washington Post and the New York Times and spoken on many podcasts and panels, including the Tokens Show, the Center for Public Christianity’s Life & Faith Podcast, and the Chris Voss Show. Du Mez also blogs at Historical Horizons, Calvin University’s History Department blog and the Patheos Anxious Bench blog. She is currently writing another book for Liveright titled Live, Laugh, Love, a cultural history of modern white Christian womanhood.

Selected Bibliography
The Beauty of the Lilies: Femininity, Innocence, and the Sweet Gospel of Uldine Utley (Religion and American Culture, Vol. 15, No. 2; 2005)

Leaving Eden: Resurrecting the Work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr (Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters who Challenged the Status Quo; T&T Clark; 2010)

“Katharine Bushnell” and “Lee Anna Starr” (Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters; Baker Academic; 2012)

Selfishness or Sacrifice? Rethinking the Second Sunday in May (Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought; 2013)

Selfishness One Degree Removed: Madeline Southard’s Desacralization of Motherhood and a Tradition of Progressive Methodism (Priscilla Papers 28, no. 2; 2014)

Reorienting American Religious History: The Case of Katharine Bushnell (American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the Shape of American Religious History; 2014)

A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford University Press; 2015)

Gender & Grace 25 Years Later: An Interview with the Author (Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought; 2015)

Building a Tradition of Christian Gender Studies (Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought; 2015)

Hillary Clinton’s history of faith is long and rich. This week, she should talk about it (Washington Post; 2016)

Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation? (Religion & Politics; 2016)

Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity (Religion & Politics; 2017)

Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity (Evangelicalism: Why They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; 2019)