Writing

[CV, January 2026]

Book

Montalbano, K. (2018). Government surveillance of religious expression: Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims in the United States. New York, NY: Routledge.

Journal Articles & Book Chapter

Montalbano, K. (2025). Reconstruction and the press: Debating defamation, 1870-1876. Communication Law and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2025.2496140

Montalbano, K., & Hamm, B. (2025). The whole county is watching: The use of Kentucky’s Open Records and Meetings Acts by local newspapers in rural communities. Journal of Civic Information, 7(2), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.32473/joci.7.2.139607

Montalbano, K. (2024). Navigating networks of suspect speech: The abolitionist mail controversy of 1835. Communication Law and Policy, 29(1-2), 62-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2024.2400077

Montalbano, K., & Perreault, G. (2023). Resisting Protestant hegemony: Privileging coverage in religion reporting. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 12(2-3), 272-292. https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10084

Perreault, G., & Montalbano, K.(2023). Covering religion: Field insurgency in U.S. religion reporting. Journalism, 24(6), 1193-1210. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211073220

Montalbano, K. (2022). Reimagining Section 230 and content moderation: Regulating incivility on anonymous digital platforms. Communication Law and Policy, 27(3-4). https://doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2022.2136442

Montalbano, K. (2021). “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry. Internet Histories, 6(1-2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.2020470

Montalbano, K. (2021). Preventing yellow jack and yellow journalism: The tensions in Mississippi Valley news coverage of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. Journalism History, 47(4), 372-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2021.1988273

Montalbano, K. (2019). The FBI and the AFSC: Surveilling United States religious expression in the Cold War era. In Rob Heynen and Emily van der Meulen (Eds.), Making surveillance states: Transnational histories (pp. 238-260). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Montalbano, K. (2019). Islamophobia in reactionary news: Radicalizing Christianity in the United States. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1): 61, pp. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.473

Montalbano, K. (2018). Net neutrality, the Fairness Doctrine, and the NRB: The tension between United States religious expression and media regulation. Media and Communication, 6(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i1.1198

Montalbano, K. (2015). Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural communication in three thirteenth-century Franciscan travel accounts. Information & Culture: A Journal of History, 50(4), 588-610. https://doi.org/10.7560/IC50406

Book Review

Montalbano, K. (June 2021). [Review of The Routledge handbook of religion and journalism, edited by K. Radde-Antweiler and X. Zeiler]. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab034