Kristine Gunnell

With a decade of teaching experience in colleges and universities, Kristine Ashton Gunnell specializes in the history of Women and Gender in the American West, especially the role of religious women in public and private life.

She is the author of Daughters of Charity:  Women, Religious Mission, and Hospital Care in Los Angeles, 1856-1927 (DePaul Vincentian Studies Institute, 2013).  In 2014, she won the Western Historical Association’s Arrington-Prucha Prize for the best article published on the history of religion in the west and she has published articles in the Southern California Quarterly, Vincentian Heritage, and the U.S. Catholic Historian.

Gunnell received her doctorate in American History from Claremont Graduate University. She lives in Simi Valley, California, and is currently writing a history of the Daughters of Charity Foundation and its strategies to fund the sisters’ social justice efforts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.