Publications are at the heart of my scholarly work and intellectual collaborations. My research has been widely recognized in the fields of sociology of religion, political sociology, and international relations, shaping debates on religion, democracy, and global value conflicts. I am committed to open access, and wherever possible I make my work freely available through this website and on Zenodo.
My books and articles have been published with leading academic presses and journals. The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights (New York University Press, 2024, with Phillip Ayoub) received multiple international book awards, including four from the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. The Moralist International (Fordham University Press, 2022, with Dmitry Uzlaner) has been widely reviewed and translated into Italian. Articles in the Journal of Democracy, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and Review of International Studies further demonstrate the global resonance of my work.
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.
Winner, 2025 ISA LGBTQA Caucus Book Prize
Winner, 2025 Sage/CQ Press Award, given by the American Political Science Association
Winner, 2025 Donald Haider-Markel Best Book Award, given by the APSA Sexuality and Politics Section
Winner, 2025 Best Book Award, given by the APSA Human Rights Section
Silver Medal, 2025 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 russia e la conquista dell’Occidente.
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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Stoeckl, Kristina (2022). Russia’s Spiritual Security Doctrine as a Challenge to European Comprehensive Security Approaches. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20 (4), 37-44.
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Stoeckl, Kristina (2020). Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism. Monographic number of Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics 1/2, 75 pages.
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Mourão Permoser, Julia; Stoeckl, Kristina (2021): Reframing human rights: the global network of moral conservative homeschooling activists. Global Networks. A Journal of Transnational Affairs 21/4, 681-702. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12299
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Stoeckl, Kristina (2020): The rise of the Russian Christian Right: the case of the World Congress of Families. Religion, State and Society, 48/4, 222-238. DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2020.1796172
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