Michael E. Heyes

Michael E. Heyes is the author of Devils of Democracy: America’s Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today (Broadleaf Books, 2026). He is also an associate professor and chair in the Department of Religion at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He received an MA in comparative religion from the University of Washington and a PhD in the history of Christianity from Rice University. He is the author of the monographs Margaret’s Monsters and Demons in the USA; an editor of the online, open-access Journal of Gods and Monsters (Texas State University); and the editor of Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States. Learn more about him at https://www.michaeleheyes.com/.