Fridays at Newcomb: Sarah Hedgecock, "'Life's a Little Bit Harder When You're a Girl': Gendered SelfUnderstanding in Evangelical Girlhood"

Sarah M. Hedgecock is the Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow at Tulane. Her work engages the fields of religious, childhood, and gender studies, and she is completing a book project about nostalgia, relationality, and white American evangelical girlhood from the Cold War to the present day. Her work has been supported by the American Examples program at the University of Alabama and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, and research grants from Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Sarah received a Ph.D. in religion at Columbia University and holds a B.A. in anthropology from Princeton University.