Amy McDowell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Amy McDowell studies and teaches the intersection of religion, gender, sexuality, and popular culture. Her previous work focused on how young Christian men use punk rock music to construct religious space in secular settings and on how Muslim youth use punk to resist anti-Muslim racism. She published this research in Gender & Society, Sociology of Religion, Qualitative Sociology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. McDowell’s current research takes a qualitative approach to understanding the relationship between American evangelical church culture and gender politics in the Deep South.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Sociology of gender, sexuality, and religion, particularly religious conservatism.