Reading List

What am I reading? Who is influencing me? What am I thinking about? I update this in the Spring, Summer, and Fall with the books I am reading.

🍁 Fall 2025 ☕️

☀️ Summer 2025 🏝️

Previous Reads

Spring 2025 

• Consuming Religion - Kathryn Lofton

• Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon - Kathryn Lofton 

• Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America - Talia Lavin

• The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race, and Feminism - ed Adrienne Trier-Bieniek

• The Lemonade Reader - ed Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin

• Goddessess of Pop: Understanding God and Christianity in 21st Century Female-Driven Pop Music - Magdalene Cybulska (dissertation)

Fall 2024

• Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequalities at Universities - James M. Thomas

• Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler

• Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire - ed. Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

• The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach - Aaryn L. Green, Maretta Darnell McDonald, Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson, Shantee Rosado

• Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire - Gale L. Kenny

• Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry - Angela Jones

Summer 2024 

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 - Rashid Khalidi

• On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care - Victor Ray

• Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating - Apryl Williams 

• Un-Shrinking: How to Face Fatphobia - Kate Manne 

• The Flag & The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy - Philip S. Gorski & Samuel L. Perry

• Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identitiy - Donald Yacovone