Kristin Du Mez teaches courses in US women’s history and US social and cultural history, and has enjoyed working with students on historical walking tours of Grand Rapids for the GR Walks app. She is currently working on Live Laugh Love, a cultural study of white Christian womanhood. Her first book, A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism(Oxford 2015) traces the remarkable life and innovative theology of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), an intrepid social reformer and anti-trafficking activist.
She has written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, NBC News, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. Coverage of Jesus and John Wayne can be found in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and on NPR, and also internationally (in Germany, the Netherlands, China, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and in Al Jazeera). She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright 2020). Kristin Du Mez’s research areas focus on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics in recent American history. I spend much of my time writing when I’m not wrangling my three kids. Holyoke, before taking up a position here at Calvin.
After graduate school at the University of Notre Dame I spent time at Williams College and at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mt. I then spent a year in Germany as an exchange student before returning to Iowa to attend Dordt College. I grew up in a small town in northwest Iowa, with a brief stint in Tallahassee, Florida, during my high school years.
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