Christie Maloyed

Christie Maloyed is associate professor of political science and associate dean of the college of liberal arts. She previously served as UL's coordinator for the first-year seminar program Her main areas of teaching are American institutions, religion and politics, and political theory. Maloyed's research focuses on civic education, religion and politics, and local government. Overarching themes in Maloyed's writings include the role of habits as a foundation for democratic education, instructional methods to encourage democratic practice, and involvement in local government. Her forthcoming co-edited volume, The Party is Over: The New Louisiana Politics, (co-editor Pearson Cross, LSU Press, forthcoming February 2022), provides a comprehensive reassessment of Louisiana state politics, from institutions to politics to policy. Her current book project, Civic Habits: Recovering the Practice of Citizenship in American Education, assesses the intellectual history of habits in American civic education. She has also published in the areas of religion and politics, with an emphasis on civil religion, as well as politics and literature/tv/film. Her work has been published in the Journal of Church and State, The History Teacher, and Journal of Political Science Education as well as in various edited volumes. She originally hails from the southwestern corner of Virginia, in the heart of rural Appalachia, and is an avid reader, gardener, and beekeeper. 

Ph.D., 2010
Texas A&M University

B.A., 2004
Emory & Henry College

Books

• The Party is Over: The New Louisiana Politics, Co-edited book, with Pearson Cross, LSU Press, February 2022.

Articles

• “Hypocrisy and Democratic Leadership in Benjamin Franklin’s Political Thought,” The Political Science Reviewer 44 (2) 2020: 479-508.
• “Dante’s Monarchia as Political Satire,” with Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Midsouth Political Science Review, 19(1) 2018: 1-24.
• “Actionable Data Projects: Social Science and Service-Learning in General Education Courses,” Journal of Political Science Education, 12 (2) 2016: 115-127
• “Mad Men and the Virtue of Selfishness,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 42(1) 2014: 16-23
• “Much Ado About Texas: Civics in the Social Studies Curriculum,” with J. Kelton Williams, The History Teacher, Vol. 47 (1), 2013: 25-40
• “Place-Based Civic Education and the Rural Leadership Crisis,” with J. Kelton Williams, Great Plains Research, Vol. 23 (Fall), 2013: 127-135
• “A Liberal Civil Religion: William Penn’s Holy Experiment,” Journal of Church and State, Vol. 55 (4), 2013: 669-689
• “Reverend John Witherspoon’s Pedagogy of Leadership,” with J. Kelton Williams, American Educational History Journal, Vol. 39 (2), 2012: 349-364

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films,” with J. Kelton Williams, in The Politics of Fear, ed.Damien Picariello, Palgrave Macmillian, 2020: 47-57
• “The Death of Jeremiah? Marilynne Robinson and Covenant Theology,” in A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson, edited by Shannon Mariotti and Joseph H. Lane, Jr., University Press of Kentucky, 2016: 195-222
• “Service Guarantees Citizenship: Starship Troopers and Democracy,” with Ted Henry Brown, in Poli Sci Fi, eds. Michael A. Allen and Justin S. Vaughn, Routledge, 2016: 37-49
• “Ender’s Dilemma: Realism, Neo-liberalism, and the Politics of Power,” with Ted Brown, in Ender’s Game and Philosophy, ed. Kevin Decker, (Wiley Blackwell, 2013): 202-211

• Innovator Award, League of Women Voters – Lafayette, 2019.
• Outstanding Academic Advisor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019.
• 20 Under 40 Young Leader Honoree, The Daily Advertiser/The 705, 2018.