Biography

Kathleen McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She specializes in religion, indigenous peoples, and gender in modern Latin America.

Her book, Protestantism and State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Oaxaca (2019, University of New Mexico Press), examines religious conflict and traditional governance in Native communities of southern Mexico. McIntyre’s current research project, “Protestant Women and Political Activism in Mexico, 1900-1955,” examines how Protestant women conceptualized citizenship after the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The book explores the interrelated themes of educational reform, sports culture, temperance, suffrage, and transnational women’s rights groups, as well as Protestant women’s relations with Catholic women.

She received a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends award for her research on the political life of Protestant women. A former American Association of University Women fellow, she also participated in the 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities “Women’s Suffrage in the Americas” Summer Institute.

Dr. McIntyre teaches Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies, International Women’s Issues, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, and has led a URI J-Term program in Cuba. She is the faculty advisor to URI’s Alpha Lambda Chapter of Triota, the National Women’s Studies Honors Society. At present, she is working with GWS students on compiling biographical sketches of African American suffragists in Rhode Island.