About
Dr. Katie Gaddini is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London (UCL) and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. From 2022-2026 she is a United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI) Research Fellow at Stanford University and UCL.
Katie holds master’s degrees from Boston College and the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.
Her debut book, The Struggle to Stay, is based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK. Her current research investigates Christian women and politics in the US. Her writing has been published in Religion & Politics, LA Review of Books, The Marginalia Review, The Conversation and more.
Katie lives in California.
The Struggle to Stay
Why Single Evangelical Women are Leaving the Church
Published by Columbia University Press
“This book will be an indispensable part of the growing scholarship that reevaluates modern evangelicalism in relation to gender.”
— Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“This moving and incisive account will resonate with anyone who has struggled with their faith.”
— Publishers Weekly