Julie J. Ingersoll is an American religious studies scholar. She is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. ^[1]

Ingersoll is from Maine, and studied at Rutgers College and George Washington University before obtaining a Ph.D in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. ^[2] She previously taught at Millsaps College, Rhodes College, and Southwest Missouri State University. ^[3]

Ingersoll specializes in Christianity and gender and Christian Reconstructionism. She wrote Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles ( New York University Press) in 2003, in which she suggested that "an unequivocal commitment to complementarian gender roles currently ranks for this generation of evangelicals as a paramount priority, as significant as the debate on biblical inerrancy was in the previous generation." ^[4] In 2015 she wrote Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction ( Oxford University Press). There she argued that "core Reconstructionist ideas have exerted an outsized influence on political, cultural, and legal life" in the United States. ^[5] Ingersoll has also contributed articles to the Huffington Post and Religion Dispatches.

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