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Kelly J. Baker

(She/Her)
Florida
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Kelly J. Baker’s Biography

I’m a freelance writer with a religious studies PhD who covers religion, higher education, gender, labor, motherhood, and popular culture. I have regular columns at the Chronicle for Higher Education‘s Vitae project, Killing the Buddha, and Sacred Matters. I’ve written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Bearings, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, Religion Dispatches, Religion & Politics, Christian Century, Washington Post, and Brain, Child.

I’m the previous editor of Women in Higher Education, a feminist newsletter, in its 26th year, with the goal "to enlighten, encourage, empower and enrage women on campus."

I’m also the author of an award-winning book, Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930, as well as The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture.