# Kristin Kobes Du Mez **Summary.** Kristin Kobes Du Mez is an American historian and a professor of history at Calvin University, where she studies the intersection of gender, religion, and politics in the United States. She writes on the history of American evangelicalism for both academic and general readers. ## Public record She is the author of *Jesus and John Wayne* (2020), a history of white American evangelical culture that traces how ideals of masculinity, militarism, and political identity took shape over the twentieth century. Her earlier scholarly work includes a study of the nineteenth-century writer and reformer Katharine Bushnell. ## Why she matters in this wiki Du Mez's history helps explain the cultural and political currents this wiki tracks, including Christian nationalism and the gender norms embedded in much of American evangelicalism. Her research grounds several of the wiki's concerns in documented historical development. ## Related - [[Christian Nationalism]]