Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Catherine B. Abbott holds a degree in history from California State University-San Marcos and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently a PhD student at UWM. She may be reached at catherineabbott@yahoo.com.
Women’s Roles in Peoples Temple and Jonestown (with Rebecca Moore) (2020)
The Women of Peoples Temple (2017)
Racial Thinking and Peoples Temple (2016)
Communism, Marxism, and Socialism: Radical Politics and Jim Jones (2015)
Jonestown and the Ku Klux Klan: Race in Indiana and Its Influence on Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (2014)
Hope Lives (2011)
The “C-Word”: The Meaning of Cult and Its Effects (2009)
Selling Jonestown: Religion, Socialism, and Revolutionary Suicide in Peoples Temple (2009)
Preparing to Sell Jonestown (2009)