Katlyn Heatherly

Katie Heatherly is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame where she studies modern U.S. history. Her research falls at the intersection of women, gender, & sexuality, religion, and culture in the late twentieth century. Particularly, her dissertation will examine the cultures of consumption evangelical women created through products related to sex, beauty, and the body. Heatherly’s project casts new light on the ways sexuality, consumption, and culture underwrote the political mobilization of the religious right.

 

Heatherly has co-taught Intro to Gender Studies and has TA'd for several modern US history courses. She was a 2025/26 Gender Studies Teaching Apprentice.

 

Heatherly is the recipient of the Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School and the Graduate Justice Fellowship from the Institute for Social Concerns. Additionally she has served as the co-director of CORAH and in several roles in the Association of Graduate Historians.

 

Heatherly received her M.A. in History from Baylor University and her B.A. in History from Union University.