Katie Heatherly

Katie Heatherly is a Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame where she studies late-twentieth-century evangelical women, gender, and sexuality. Her research centers evangelical sex advice literature and explores questions of positionality, authority, agency, and navigation of patriarchy. Her historical inquiries shed light on the various paths evangelical women chose amid constraints and illuminate the ways evangelicals’ positionality, primarily their gender and race, shaped the sexual ethic they advanced. Heatherly received her M.A. in History from Baylor University and her B.A. in History from Union University. Outside of academia, Heatherly enjoys hiking, coffee, and exploring new places.