Publications are at the heart of my scholarly work and intellectual collaborations. My research spans sociology of religion, political sociology, and international relations, with a focus on religion, democracy, transnational conservative mobilization, and global value conflicts. I am committed to open access, and wherever possible I make my work freely available through this website or academic repositories.
My most recent books are The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights (New York University Press, 2024, with Phillip Ayoub), which received multiple international book awards in 2025, and The Moralist International (Fordham University Press, 2022, with Dmitry Uzlaner), which was translated into Italian in 2024.
Below you will find a selection of recent publications. For a complete bibliography, consult the >> full list of publications.
Ayoub, Phillip M. and Kristina Stoeckl (2024). The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights. How Transnational Conservative Networks target Sexual and Gender Minorities. New York: New York University Press.
2025 ISA LGBTQA Caucus Book Prize
2025 Sage/CQ Press Award, given by the American Political Science Association
2025 Donald Haider-Markel Best Book Award, given by the APSA Sexuality and Politics Section
2025 Best Book Award, given by the APSA Human Rights Section
2025 Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards: LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction
Stoeckl, Kristina and Dmitry Uzlaner (2022). The Moralist International. Russia in the Global Culture Wars. New York: Fordham University Press.
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Translated into Italian with a foreword by Maria Chiara Francescelli by Luiss University Press: L’Internazionale Moralista. I conservatori russi e la conquista dell’Occidente.
Stoeckl, Kristina (2024). The Pact of the Old Guard: Religion, Law, and Politics for
a Russia at War. Journal of Law and Religion 39/3, 482-493.
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Stoeckl, Kristina and Dmitry Uzlaner (2026). The Russian Orthodox Church and the Moralist International in Times of War: Ruptures and Continuities in Russia’s Traditional Values Agenda, Journal of Church and State, Volume 68, Issue 3.
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Ayoub, Phillip and Kristina Stoeckl (2024). Why Autocrats Target LGBTIQ Rights. Journal of Democracy, vol. 35, issue 1, 59-73. #OPENACCESS
Stoeckl, Kristina (2023). Traditional Values, Family, Homeschooling: The role of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in transnational moral conservative networks and their efforts at reshaping human rights. International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 21, issue 1, 224–242.
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Ayoub, Phillip and Kristina Stoeckl (2023). The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights. Review of International Studies. Published online 2023: 1-23. #OPENACCESS
Stoeckl, Kristina (2024). “Church and State versus Church and People: the two social orders of the Russian Orthodox Church”, in: Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism, ed. by Ana Siljak. Cornell University Press, pp. 32-44.
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