Emily Suzanne Johnson (Ph.D, Yale University) is Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she is also an affiliate faculty member in Women’s and Gender Studies. Johnson is the author of “This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right” (2019). Her research interests center on gender and sexuality in U.S. history, with a particular focus on the intersections between religion, politics, and popular culture. She is a regular contributor to Religion and Politics and to “Made by History” by the Washington Post.