ABOUT
Dr. Katie Gaddini is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London (UCL) and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. From 2022-2026 she is a United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI) Research Fellow at Stanford University and UCL.
Her next book, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, on Christian women and conservative politics from 1970 to present, based on over 10 years of ethnographic research, will be published in June 2026 by W.W. Norton. Her debut book, The Struggle to Stay, was based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK.
Her writing has been published in TIME magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, The Conversation, Religion & Politics, LA Review of Books, The Marginalia Review, and more. She has given expert opinion to media including New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Newsweek, NPR, The i, and international outlets in France, Spain, Colombia, Germany, Norway, Australia and Turkey.
Katie holds master’s degrees from Boston College and the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. She currently lives in California.