CSGS is pleased to announce that Kelsey Hanson Woodruff will join the center in July as a postdoctoral faculty researcher for a pilot project titled “Moving Past God and Guns: Strengthening Scholarly and Public Understanding of the Intersection of Guns and Religion.” This one-year research study is made possible with a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. In addition to research, Woodruff will teach two courses at Wesleyan, including American Religion and Media, in fall 2026.
Woodruff has a PhD in religion with a secondary field in anthropology from Harvard University. She is currently working on two books: Faithful Dissent: Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media, under advance contract with Oxford University Press; and On the Days When I Believe: The Life and Spiritual Legacy of Rachel Held Evans is a religious biography of the well-known writer Rachel Held Evans, forthcoming from Eerdmans Publishing in 2027.