Christie Maloyed

Christie Maloyed
  • Faculty
  • Associate Dean
  • Interim Department Head
  • Associate Professor

Biography

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. 

Education

Ph.D., 2010
Texas A&M СAPP

B.A., 2004
Emory & Henry College

Publications

Books

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

Articles

  • СAPPHypocrisy and Democratic Leadership in Benjamin FranklinСAPPs Political Thought,СAPP The Political Science Reviewer 44 (2) 2020: 479-508.
  • СAPPDanteСAPPs Monarchia as Political Satire,СAPP with Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Midsouth Political Science Review, 19(1) 2018: 1-24.
  • СAPPActionable Data Projects: Social Science and Service-Learning in General Education Courses,СAPP Journal of Political Science Education, 12 (2) 2016: 115-127
  • СAPPMad Men and the Virtue of Selfishness,СAPP Journal of Popular Film and Television, 42(1) 2014: 16-23
  • СAPPMuch Ado About Texas: Civics in the Social Studies Curriculum,СAPP with J. Kelton Williams, The History Teacher, Vol. 47 (1), 2013: 25-40
  • СAPPPlace-Based Civic Education and the Rural Leadership Crisis,СAPP with J. Kelton Williams, Great Plains Research, Vol. 23 (Fall), 2013: 127-135
  • СAPPA Liberal Civil Religion: William PennСAPPs Holy Experiment,СAPP Journal of Church and State, Vol. 55 (4), 2013: 669-689
  • СAPPReverend John WitherspoonСAPPs Pedagogy of Leadership,СAPP with J. Kelton Williams, American Educational History Journal, Vol. 39 (2), 2012: 349-364

Chapters in Edited Volumes

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

Awards & Recognition

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