Hello! My name is Rebecca Wolfe.

I am currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where I will defend my dissertation in Spring 2024.

My dissertation, currently titled ‘Your Body is Not Your Own’: (Dis)embodied Sexual and Mental Health in Evangelical Purity Culture qualitatively illustrates participant experiences of socially-required thinness, sexual and relational submission, and domesticity as shaped by purity culture’s emphasis on white Christian nationalism, spiritualized asceticism, and patriarchy.

My research interests include the body, gender, health, and sexuality.