Dr. Evelyn Kirkley

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University

Contact information

Office: Maher 291, Phone: (619) 260-4131, Fax: (619) 260-2260, E-mail: ekirkley@sandiego.edu

Research specialties

Alternative/non-mainstream religious movements (commonly called sects & cults); religion & gender in the United States; religion & sexual orientation in the United States; methodology in U.S. religious history

Teaching specialties

History of Christianity; religious history of the United States; religion and culture; alternative religions

Selected publications

Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, 2000)

"The Rights of Women and Human Rights: Achievements and Contradictions," Concilium 2002/5 The Rights of Women: 9-17.

"Rainbow Visibility: How One Catholic University Responded to Intolerance" co-authored with Cheryl Getz, About Campus, vol. 7, no. 3 (July/August 2002): 23-26.

"Phallic Spirituality: Masculinities in Promise Keepers, Million Man March, and Sex Panic," co-authored with James N. Poling, Theology and Sexuality (no. 12, March 2000): 9-25.

"Masking the Invisible: Hispanic and Latino Americans in U.S. Religious Historiography," Theology: Expanding the Borders, eds. Maria Pilar Aquino and Roberto S. Goizueta, The Annual Publication of the College Theology Society, vol. 43 (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1998): 60-79.

"Equality of the Sexes, But..." Women in Point Loma Theosophy, 1899-1942," Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 1, no.2 (April 1998): 272-288.