Amy McDowell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Amy McDowell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi. Her first book, Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America, was published with New York University Press in 2026. She specializes in the sociology of religion, race, gender, and sexuality and serves as the Director of the Queer Mississippi Histories Project at the University of Mississippi.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: How religion shapes gender and sexual hierarchies and norms.