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Sarah Hedgecock

Adjunct Faculty, Religious Studies

Departments

  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • Religious Studies

Bio

Sarah M. Hedgecock's work engages the fields of religious, childhood, and gender studies, and she is currently at work on a book project about nostalgia, relationality, and white American evangelical girlhood from the Cold War to the present day. Her book, Good Christian Girls: Nostalgia and the Making of Evangelical Girlhood, is forthcoming from UNC Press. 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, as well as 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.

Publications

Good Christian Girls: Nostalgia and the Making of Evangelical Girlhood. Under contract with UNC Press. 

“‘To Protect People from the Indians’: Whiteness, Nostalgia, and the Pioneer Girls.” Accepted by Religion and American Culture.

Hedgecock, Sarah M. “A Disciplined Wilderness: Nostalgia at Midcentury Evangelical Summer Camp.” In American Examples, Vol 5: New Conversations about Religion, 1st ed., edited by Michael J. Altman, Rachel E. C. Beckley, Jacob Lassin, and Andrew Klumpp. University of Alabama Press, 2026.