Austin Clements

Austin Clements is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Stanford University. His dissertation, “Defending the Kingdom of God: Religious Origins of the American Right, 1917-1941,” traces the formation and development of a rightwing intellectual and political coalition between multiple American religious movements (including Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Mormonism) during the first half of the twentieth century. He is more broadly interested in the intellectual and religious history of the United States, paying particular attention to the relationship between religion and politics, extremism, and white supremacy. His article “‘The Franco Way’: The American Right and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9,” which analyzes the literature of pro-Franco Americans, was recently published in the Journal of Contemporary History. His research has been supported by the Stanford Humanities Center, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, and the Hoover Institution.