William Stell is a scholar of religion and sexuality in the United States with additional expertise in disability studies and in African American history.

His book Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity (Princeton University Press) was published in May of this year. A groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States from the 1950s to the present, Born Again Queer demonstrates that evangelicalism’s anti-LGBTQ+ positions are neither timeless nor inherent, transforming how we think about American religion, sexuality, and politics. 

Prior to his position at Princeton University's Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, he was the Faculty Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at New York University.