Field(s) of expertise:

Degree(s):

• BA, History, University of West Georgia
• MA, History, University of West Georgia
• MA, Sociology, University of West Georgia
• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Georgia

Department:

Title(s):

• Professor of Sociology
• Director, Gender Studies Program

Achievements:

• 2023 MSU Department of Sociology Distinguished Faculty Award
• 2022 MSU College of Arts & Sciences Phil and Kari Oldham Mentor Award
• 2017 MSU College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award in Social and Behavior Sciences
• 2014 MSU President’s Commission on the Status of Women Outstanding Faculty Award
• 2014 MSU President’s Commission on the Status of Minorities Team Diversity Award

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Links:

• Department faculty page
• Gender Studies program website

Bio:

Kimberly Kelly is Professor of Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. She studies the intersections of religion and reproductive politics, focusing upon abortion activism in the United States. Her previous work addressed the crisis pregnancy center movement, ‘post abortion syndrome,’ and the diffusion of religious ideology into public policy and appears in journals such as Gender & Society, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Social Science & Medicine, Qualitative Sociology, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. More recently, she is working on a book project about abortion politics in Mississippi before and after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, tentatively titled Bible Belt Abortion: Race, Religion, and Reproductive Politics in Mississippi.