Chris Talbot
Faculty
Professor and Program Coordinator
- Gender Studies
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
- Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan
- Certificate of Graduate Studies in Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
- M.A. in History, University of Michigan
- B.A. in History, University of Utah
- B.S. in Women’s Studies, University of Utah
Professional Experience & Affiliations
- 2008-Present, University of Northern Colorado; Program Coordinator (2025-present, 2009-2023), Professor (2023-Present); Associate Professor (2017-2023); Assistant Professor (2008-2017
- 2006-2008, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
Research Expertise & Interests
Women’s and Gender Studies, Feminist and Queer Theories, U.S. History, U.S. Women’s and Gender History, History of Sexuality, Mormon Studies
Publications
Christine Talbot, “Spectacular Mormon Politics: Sonia Johnson and the ERA in ‘The Society of the Spectacle’” Mormon Studies Review, 2025.
Christine Talbot, Sonia Johnson: A Mormon Feminist. University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Christine Talbot, “Constructing a National Marital and Sexual Culture: Reconsidering the ‘Twin Relics of Barbarism,” in Reconstruction in Mormon America, edited by Brian Q. Cannon and Clyde A. Milner II. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
Christine Talbot, “Mormons, Gender, and the New Commercial Entertainments,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July 2017.
Christine Talbot, A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890. University of Illinois Press, 2013.