Our People
The Center is a community of scholars, students, and practitioners from across the country, located in Indianapolis but with a national reach.
Our Staff
Philip Goff
Executive Director
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
Associate Director
Lauren (Chism) Schmidt
Programs and Operations Manager
Ben Bland
Communications Manager
Nathaniel Wynne
Program Coordinator
Claire Larsen
Communications Coordinator
Melissa Borja
Community Scholar
Thomas J. Davis
Project Director
Arthur E. Farnsley
Project Director
Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Project Director
Brian Steensland
Project Director
Peter J. Thuesen
Project Director
Andrew L. Whitehead
Project Director
Ellie Ash
Postdoctoral Researcher
Meghan Bowen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Fellows and Collaborators
Zaid Adhami
Fellow, YSAR
Williams College
Asma Afsaruddin
Fellow
Professor of Middle eastern Langauges and Cultures and International Studies
Indiana University Bloomington
Qur’anic Hermeneutics; Islamic Thought; Contemporary American Muslims
Andrew Ali Aghapour
Religion &
Scholar and Comedian
Catherine Albanese
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tazeen Ali
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Washington University in St. Louis
American Islam; Islam and Gender; Muslims and Popular Culture
Nancy T. Ammerman
Fellow, Biennial
Professor Emerita
Boston University
Congregational Studies; Lived Religion; Evangelicalism
Salah Ansary
Religion &
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Ellie Ash
Staff
Postdoctoral Researcher
Indiana University Indianapolis
Jonathan Baer
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religion
Wabash College
American Religion; Church History; Sociology of Religion
Julius Bailey
Fellow, YSAR
University of Redlands
Shelby Balik
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Early American Religion; Families and Households; Church and State
Lloyd D. Barba
Fellow, YSAR
Amherst College
Latino Religion; Race & Immigration; Sanctuary; Pentecostals & Catholics
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Religion &
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Diana Butler Bass
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Molly Bassett
Religion &
Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies
Georgia State University
Mesoamerican Religions; Concepts of Deity; Applied Religious Studies
Amanda J. Baugh
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &, Biennial
Associate Professor
California State University, Northridge
Religion, Race, and Environment; Environmental Justice
Chad M. Bauman
Biennial, Fellow
Professor of Religion
Butler University
Hinduism; Hindu and Christian Identity
Brandon Bayne
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Religion in the Americas; Latinx Religion; Borderlands; Missionary-Indigenous Encounter
Timothy Beal
Religion &
Distinguished University Professor; Florence Harkness Professor of Religion; Director of h.lab?
Case Western Reserve University
Lori G. Beaman
Religion &, Fellow, YSAR
University of Lethbridge
Courtney Bender
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial, YSAR
Columbia University
James Bennett
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Santa Clara University
AmAnticult Movement; Religion and Race; Religion in the American West
Lila Berman
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of History
Temple University
American Jewish History
Evan Berry
Religion &
Arizona State University
Ben Bland
Staff
Communications Manager
Indiana University Indianapolis
Anne Blankenship
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
North Dakota State University
U.S. Immigration; Asian American History; Christianity in America; Pilgrimage
Joseph Blankholm
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Annie Blazer
Religion &
College of William and Mary
Edward Blum
Fellow, YSAR
Professor
San Diego State University
Religion; Race; American History
Vaughn A. Booker
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
African American Religions; Authority; Civil Rights; Popular Culture
Melissa Borja
Staff, Biennial, YSAR, Fellow, Religion &
Community Scholar
University of Michigan
Migration; Religion; Politics; Pluralism; Race; U.S. history
Jacob Boss
Religion &
Queen's University at Kingston
Joy Bostic
Religion &
Case Western Reserve University
Meghan Bowen
Staff
Postdoctoral Researcher
Indiana University Indianapolis
Kate Bowler
Fellow, Biennial, Religion &, YSAR
Duke University
Matthew Bowman
Religion &
Claremont Graduate University
New Religious Movements; UFOs; Mormonism; Religion and Business
Daniel Bowman
Religion &
Taylor University
Ann B. Braude
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History
Harvard Divinity School
The Religious History of American Women; Religion and Modern Art; Native American Studies
Stephanie Brehm
Religion &
Northwestern University
Catherine Brekus
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Harvard Divinity School
Candy Gunther Brown
Fellow
Professor of Religious Studies
Indiana University
Religion; Church History; American History
Robert Brown
Fellow, YSAR
Professor
James Madison University
Religion in Early America; Bible in America; Evangelicalism
Tricia Bruce
Fellow, Biennial
Sociologist, Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Independent Scholar
Catholicism; Community; Organizations; Culture
Cara Lea Burnidge
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
University of Northern Iowa
Religion and U.S. Politics; Foreign Relations
Rudy V. Busto
Biennial
University of California Santa Barbara
Jon Butler
Biennial
Yale University
American Religious History
Anthea Butler
Biennial, Religion &
University of Pennsylvania
Julie Byrne
Fellow, Biennial, Editor, YSAR
Hartman Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Religion
Hofstra University
US Religion; Catholicism; African American Religions
Wendy Cadge
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Professor of Sociology
Bryn Mawr College
Sociology; Religion; Spiritual Care; Chaplaincy
Peter Cajka
Fellow, YSAR
University of Notre Dame
Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Gonzaga University
Labor; Oceanic Studies; Appalachia; Popular Culture; Method & Theory
William Calvo-Quirós
Biennial
University of Michigan
Digital Religious Studies; Migration; Latina/o/x Religious Studies; Love
Heidi A. Campbell
Biennial
Texas A&M University
Media, Religion, & Culture; Digital Religion; Emerging Technology Ethics
Candi Cann
Religion &
Baylor University
Christopher D. Cantwell
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Assistant Professor of Digital and Public History
Loyola University Chicago
Evangelicalism; Fundamentalism; Memory, Museums; Public History; Digital Humanities
Jennifer Caplan
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR
Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati
American Judaism and popular culture
Bret Carroll
Biennial, Religion &
California State University, Stanislaus
Katherine Carte
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Southern Methodist University
Early American Religion; American Revolution; Atlantic Religion
Heath Carter
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor of American Christianity
Princeton Theological Seminary
Race; Reform; Class; Inequality; Nationalism; Public Life
Erik Carter
Biennial
Baylor University
Religion and Disability
Christopher Carter
Religion &
University of San Diego
Beth Cate
Religion &
Indiana University Bloomington
Soulit Chacko
Fellow, Religion &
Postdoctoral Fellow
Boise State University
Local History; Immigration; Gender
Ava Chamberlain
Fellow, YSAR
Professor, Department of Religion
Wright State University
American Religious History; Religion in Colonial America; Jonathan Edwards; Women and Gender History
Patricia Mei Yin Chang
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
João B. Chaves
Biennial
Baylor University
Yvonne Chireau
Religion &, Fellow, YSAR
Swarthmore College
African American and Africana Religions
Samah Choudhury
Religion &
Assistant Professor of Religioun and Philosophy
University of Chicago
Islam in the U.S.; Racialization; Gender; Humor; Comedy; Secularism
Emily Suzanne Clark
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
American Religious History; African American Religious History; American Spiritualism
Kristel Clayville
Religion &
Technology Ethics Lecturer in the Computer Science Department
University of Illinois-Chicago
Religious ethics; computer science; A.I ethics
Ryon Cobb
Religion &
Rutgers University
Charles Cohen
Biennial
University of Wilsconsin-Madison
Jonathan Coley
Biennial
Oklahoma State University
Religion; Social Movements; Politics; Education; Gender and Sexuality
John Corrigan
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion, Professor of History, and Distinguished Research Professor
Florida State University
American religious history; religion and emotion; religious intolerance; spatial humanities
Douglas E. Cowan
Religion &
Professor of Religious Studies
University of Waterloo
Joe Creech
Fellow, YSAR
Director, Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts
Valparaiso University
Intersections of American Religious; Political, Economic; Cultural History; Populism
Matthew J. Cressler
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Independent Scholar
African American Religion; Catholicism; Anti/Racism; Horror; Comics
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Fellow, YSAR
University of Notre Dame
Heather Curtis
Fellow, YSAR
Tufts University
American Religious History; Race & Religion; Religious Humanitarians
David Daniels
Biennial
McCormick Theological Seminary
Thomas J. Davis
Staff, Editor
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
Protestant Reformation; American Religious History; Philanthropy
Keri Day
Biennial, Fellow
Princeton Theological Seminary
Betty A. DeBerg
Fellow, YSAR
University of Northern Iowa
Sarah Dees
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Native American Religions; Museums; Race and Empire; Method and Theory
Amy DeRogatis
Fellow, Biennial
Professsor
Michigan State University
Religion, Sex, and Gender; Religion in North America; Religion and Sound
Dennis C. Dickerson
Fellow, Biennial
Reverend James M. Lawson Chair in History
Vanderbilt University
American and African American Religion History; The Civil Rights Movement
Paul Djupe
Fellow, Biennial
Associate Professor
Denison University
American Religion and Politics; Public Opinion; Political Behavior
Darren Dochuk
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor of History
University of Notre Dame
20th Century US History; History of US Religion and Politics; History of Energy
Jamil W. Drake
Fellow, Religion &, Biennial, YSAR
Yale Divinity School
Janine Giordano Drake
Fellow, YSAR
Clinical Assistant Professor of History
Indiana University Bloomington
Labor & Working-Class; Gender; Citizenship; Welfare; Race & Ethnicity
Carol B. Duncan
Biennial
Wilfrid Laurier University
Madeline Duntley
Fellow, YSAR
Bowling Green State University
Esoteric Mt. Shasta; Nature Spirits; Angels/Devas; Indigeneity & Crime
Helen Rose Ebaugh
Biennial
University of Houston
Jonathan Ebel
Fellow, YSAR, YSAR Mentor
University of Illinois
Penny Edgell
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR Mentor
Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Minnesota
Cultural sociology; American religion; sociology of religion; religion in public life; gender; race
Korie L. Edwards
Biennial
The Ohio State University
Caleb Elfenbein
Religion &
Professor of History and Religious Studies; Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Grinnell College
Diversity; Religion; History
Omri Elisha
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
New York University
Anthropology of Religion; Evangelicalism; Christianity; Astrology; Ritual; Media; Ethnography
Maggie Elmore
YSAR
Sam Houston State University
Michael O. Emerson
Fellow, YSAR
Rice University
Erika Engstrom
Religion &
University of Kentucky
Religion in Television Fiction; Catholicism; Religion and Horror
Steven Epperson
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Christopher Evans
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of the History of Christianity
Boston University
American Religious History; History of Christianity; U.S. Protestantism
Arthur E. Farnsley
Staff, Religion &, Biennial
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
American Religion; Civil Society
Maura Jane Farrelly
Fellow, YSAR
Brandeis University
American Catholicism; Colonial and Early American History
Tony Fels
Fellow, YSAR
University of San Fransico
Tracy Fessenden
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR Mentor, Editor, YSAR
Professor
Arizona State University
religion, literature, music, and other arts; religion and politics; secularization and secularity
Martha Finch
Fellow, YSAR
Southwest Missouri State University
Roger Finke
Fellow, Biennial
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies and International Affairs
Penn State University
Religion and State Issues
Linford D. Fisher
Fellow, YSAR
Brown University
Kathleen Flake
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies
University of Virginia
American Religion; Religion and Law; Marginalized Religious Movements; Mormonism; Religious Studies
Spencer Fluhman
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of History
Brigham Young University
History of Christianity; American Religion; Latter-day Saints
Amanda Friesen
Religion &
Associate Professor of politcal studies; Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology Director; The Body Politics Lab
University of Western Ontario
Political communication; Gender and politics; Religion; Religion and politics
Paul Froese
Fellow, Biennial
Professor
University of Washington - Seattle
Religion; Politics; Ideology; and Culture
Jacqui Frost
Biennial
Purdue University
Seth Emmanuel Gaiters
YSAR
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Sally Gallagher
Biennial
Oregon State University
Kathleen Garces-Foley
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of Religious Studies
Marymount University
Spirituality; Young Adults; Secularism; Hospice; Funerals
Ben Garcia
Religion &
The American LGBTQ+ Museum
Erika E. Gault
Biennial, Religion &
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Karin E. Gedge
Fellow, YSAR
West Chester University
Katharine Gerbner
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of History
University of Minnesota
History of Religion; Atlantic Religions; Early America, Caribbean, Africana Religions
James German
Fellow, YSAR
SUNY Potsdam
John Giggie
Fellow, YSAR
University of Alabama
Jon Ivan Gill
Religion &
Gustavus Adolphus College
W. Clark Gilpin
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Margaret E. Burton Professor, emeritus
University of Chicago
History of modern Christianity; Literature
Kathryn Gin Lum
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Stanford University
American religion; religion and race
Matthew Glass
Fellow
South Dakota State University
Rebecca A. Goestz
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of History
New York University
race, slavery, and colonialism
Philip Goff
Staff, Editor, Religion &, YSAR
Executive Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
American Religious History; Religion and American Culture
Marion Goldman
Fellow, Biennial
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies
University of Chicago
Minority Religions; Gender and Religion; Theory
Henry Goldschmidt
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Philipp Gollner
Fellow, YSAR
Goshen College
Rosemary D. Gooden
Fellow, YSAR
DePaul University
Eric K. Gormly
Fellow, YSAR
Arizona State University
Rebecca Kneale Gould
Fellow, YSAR
Middlebury College
Jennifer Graber
Fellow, YSAR, YSAR Mentor
Professor of Religious Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Native American Religions; Religion and Violence; Religion and Empire
Brett Grainger
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor
Villanova University
Evangelicalism; nature religion; metaphysical religion and "spiritual but not religious"
Michael Graziano
Fellow, YSAR
University of Northern Iowa
U.S. Religion & Law; Education; National Security
Alison Greene
Fellow, YSAR
Emory University
Zareena Grewal
Fellow, Biennial
Assoc Prof
Yale University
Islam in the US; transnational religion
R. Marie Griffith
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Washington University in St. Louis
History of American Religion; Gender, and Sexuality; Religion and Politics
Rachel B. Gross
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor, John & Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies
San Francisco State University
U.S. Jewish History; U.S. Religion and Culture
Matthew J. Grow
Fellow, YSAR
History Office at LDS
Jennifer Guiliano
Religion &
Indiana University Indianapolis
Richard Gunderman
Fellow, Religion &
Chancellor's Professor
Indiana University Indianapolis
Medical education; Philanthropy; Medical humanities
Leah Gunning Francis
Religion &
Indiana University Health
Joshua Guthman
Fellow, YSAR
Berea College
Paul Gutjahr
Fellow
Professor of English
Indiana University Bloomington
American religious tradtions; Bible Studies; Literature
Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Staff, Religion &
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
Intellectual History; Twentieth Century U.S History
David Hall
Biennial
Harvard Divinity School
Charles Hambrick-Stowe
Biennial
Congregational Church, Ridgefield CT
Everett Hamner
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of English
University of Iowa
literature; film; religion; science; politics
Clarence Hardy
Fellow, YSAR
Yale Divinity School
Keith Harper
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Senior Professor of Baptist Studies
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Baptist history (general); Baptists and Race; hermeneutics
David Harrington Watt
Fellow, Biennial
Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies
Haverford College
Protestantism; Quakerism;Evangelicalism
Melanie L. Harris
Religion &
Professor of Religion and Ethics
Wake Forest Divinity School
Meredith Olivia Harris Hope
Religion &
College of Wooster
Cooper Harriss
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
Literature; Music; Sport
Paul Harvey
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial, YSAR Mentor
Professor of History
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
race and religion in American history
John Hayes
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of History
Augusta College
late 19th-20th century US South
Sonia Hazard
YSAR
Florida State University
Matthew Hedstrom
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor, Religious Studies and American Studies
University of Virginia
Post-Protestantism; Spirituality; Cosmopolitanism; Politics
Michael P. Hemenway
Religion &
Case Western Reserve University
Brett Hendrickson
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Profess of Religious Studies
Lafayette College
Mexican American Religious History; Religion in the American West; Religion and Healing
Patricia Snell Herzog
Fellow
Melvin Simon Chair and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis
Charitable Giving; Youth Religiosity; Emerging Adults in America
Darrius Hills
Religion &, Fellow, YSAR
Grinnell College
Black Religious Thought; Masculinity; Religion and Race in America
Bruce Hindmarsh
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR
James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity
Regent College
History of Christian Spirituality; History of Early Evangelicalism
Kathleen Holscher
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor and Endowed Chair of Catholic Studies
University of New Mexico
U.S. Catholic history; church-state relations; race and settler colonialism
Kristina Horn Sheeler
Religion &
Indiana University Indianapolis
Daniel Howe
Fellow
Professor Emeritus
University of California Berkeley
US religious; intellectual, and cultural history
Justine Howe
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Islam in America; Anthropology of Religion; Gender and Sexuality
Lydia Huffman Hoyle
Fellow, YSAR
Campbell University
James Hudnut-Beumler
Fellow, Biennial
Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History
Vanderbilt University
19th and 20th Century religion and economics, politics, and southern culture
Micah A. Hughes
Fellow, Religion &
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Religion; Secularism; Higher Education; Civil Society in modern Turkey and the United States
Lucia Hulsether
Religion &, YSAR
Skidmore College
Judith Hunter
Fellow, YSAR
State University of New York at Geneseo
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Biennial
Northwestern University
Susan Hyatt
Fellow
Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Indiana University Indianapolis
Jewish immigration and movement
Sarah Imhoff
Fellow, Religion &
Indiana University Bloomington
Courtney Irby
Fellow, YSAR
Illinois Wesleyan University
Charles Irons
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of History and Chair, Dept. of History and Geography
Elon University
19th-Century US; US South; African American History and Memory
Charles Israel
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs / Assoc. Prof. of History
Auburn University
History and Religion in the U.S. South; Religion and Education
Andrea R. Jain
Fellow, Religion &
Associate Professor of Religoius Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis
Contemporary Spirituality; Hitorsy of yoga and modern yoga; Intersection between gender, race, religion and yoga
Randal Maurice Jelks
Religion &
Indiana University Bloomington
American Studies; African American Studies
Elizabeth L. Jemison
Fellow, YSAR
Clemson University
Religion, Race, & Gender; White Christian Racism; Southern Religion
Sylvester A. Johnson
Fellow, Religion &, Biennial, YSAR, YSAR Mentor
Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities and Director, Center for Humanities
University of West Virginia
Africana Religions; Technology; Race; Empire; AI
Andre E. Johnson
Fellow, Biennial, Religion &
Associate Professor
University of Memphis
Religious Rhetoric; Black Church; Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Emily Johnson
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor of History
Ball State University
Gender and sexuality in U.S history; Religion; Politics; Popular culture
Khyati Joshi
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR Mentor, Biennial, YSAR
Professor
Farleigh Dickinson University
Social Justice Education; Religion and Race in America
Kathleen M. Joyce
Fellow, YSAR
Duke University
Hillary Kaell
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor
McGill University
Christianity; United States; Quebec; material and sensory culture; global travel and imaginaries
Conrad Kanagy
Fellow, YSAR
Elizabethtown College
Paula Kane
Fellow, Biennial
Professor and Marous Chair of Catholic Studies
University of Pittsburgh
American Religion; Catholicism; Religion, Film, and the Arts; Capitalism and Religion
Brennan Keegan
YSAR
College of Charelston
Sheila Kennedy
Fellow
Professor of Law and Public Policy
Indiana University Indianapolis
Charity; Law; Politics; History
Gale Kenny
Fellow, Biennial
Assistant Professor
Barnard College
Religion and social and political activism; Protestant missionaries; gender and racial formations
Ariela Keysar
Fellow, Biennial
Senior Fellow, Public Policy and Law Program
Trinity College
Demography of religion and secularism; Jewish millennials; survey methodology; longitudinal studies
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Biennial
University of Michigan
Khadija Khaja
Fellow
Associate Professor of Social Work
Indiana University Indianapolis
Muslim communities; Islamophobia; Whie Nationalism and it's impact; social work; spirituality
Nancy A. Khalil
YSAR
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Muslims; ethnography; religion; racialization; advertising
Thomas Kidd
Fellow, YSAR
Vardaman Distinguished Professor of History
Midwestern Theological Seminary
Religion in early America
Helen Jin Kim
Fellow, YSAR
Emory University
David King
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Philanthripic Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis; The Lake Institute of Faith and Giving
American religious history; Global faith communities; Religious identity of faith-based nonprofits
Pamela Klassen
Biennial
University of Toronto
Philippa Koch
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &
Assistant Professor
Missouri State University
Religion and Medicine; Religion in Early America and the Atlantic World; Body and Sexuality
Amy Koehlinger
Fellow, YSAR
Oregon State University
Joseph Kip Kosek
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Suzanna Krivulskaya
YSAR
California State University, San Marcos
Religion; Sexuality; Gender; LGBTQ
Adrienne Krone
Fellow, YSAR
Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability and Department of Religious Studies
Allegheny College
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
Fellow
Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis
Toxic Heritage; Religion and Heritage; California Missions; Museums
Jaime Kucinskas
Biennial
Hamilton College
Morality; Spirituality & Religious Culture; Social Change
Prema Kurien
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of Sociology
Syracuse University
Immigrants and immigration; Race and ethnicity; civic and political activism
Gary Laderman
Religion &
Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures
Emory University
Chris Lamb
Religion &
Indiana University Indianapolis
Claire Larsen
Staff
Communications Coordinator
Indiana University Indianapolis
Anna M. Lawrence
Fellow, YSAR
Fairfield University
K. Elise Leal
YSAR
Whitworth University
Tracy Leavelle
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Creighton University
Laura Levitt
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR Mentor, Editor, YSAR
Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender
Temple University
American Jewish Life; Gender; Trauma; Holocaust; Memory; Material and Visual Culture
Rachel Lindsey
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Assistant Professor
St. Louis University
Visual and Material Cultures of Religion; Religion and Public Life; Race; Digital Humanities
Edward T. Linenthal
Biennial
Indiana University Blooomington
Kathryn Lofton
Fellow, YSAR, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Professor, Chair, Dean
Yale University
Religion and popular culture; Religion and sexuality; Method and theory in the study of religion
Dana Logan
YSAR
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Kathryn Long
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor Emerita; independent scholar
Wheaton College
19th and 20th century American evangelicalism; evangelical missions in Latin America; revivals in US
Mike Long
Religion &
Elizabethtown College
Krista Longtin
Religion &
Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development
Indiana University Indianapolis
Communication Education and Training in Sciences and Health
William L. MacDonald
Fellow, YSAR
The Ohio State University at Newark
Supernatural Beliefs; American Religion; Science and Religion
Laurie Maffly-Kipp
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR Mentor, YSAR
Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor
University of Virginia
Mormonism; Religion and Globalization; African American Religions
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Fellow, YSAR
Kalamazoo College
Andrew M. Manis
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of History
Middle Georgia State University
American & African-American Religion; American Civil Religion; Religion & the Civil Rights Movement
Christel Manning
Fellow, Biennial
Professor
Sacred Heart University
Sociology of religion; religion, gender, and family; Nones and secularity; marginal religions
Peter Manseau
Fellow, Biennial
Curator
Smithsonian Institution
Material Culture of American Religion
Gerardo Martí
Fellow, Biennial, Religion &
Professor of Sociology
Davidson College
Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Innovation; Social Change
Lerone A. Martin
Fellow, Religion &, Biennial, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of American Culture Studies Program
Stanford University
Religion in 20th Century US
Joel W. Martin
Fellow, YSAR
Wagner University
Timothy Matovina
Biennial
University of Notre Dame
Latine Religion and Theology; Catholicism in the United States
Elizabeth McAlister
Fellow, YSAR
Professor, Religion & African American Studies
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Afro-Caribbean religions; race theory; global evangelicalism
Melani McAlister
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of American Studies and International Affairs
George Washington University
US in the world; evangelicals in a global context; transnational culture; humanitarianism
Eugene B. McCarraher
Fellow, YSAR
Villanova University
Michael Brandon McCormack
Biennial, Religion &
University of Louisville
Charles McCrary
YSAR
Eckerd College
Gerald R. McDermott
Fellow, YSAR
University of Roanoke
John T. McGreevy
Biennial
Notre Dame University
Omar M. McRoberts
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR Mentor
University of Chicago
Laura McTighe
Fellow, YSAR
Florida State University
Abolition; Mutual Aid; Reproductive Justice; Collaborative Ethnography
Carolyn Medine
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of Religion and Professor and Director, Institute for African American Studies
University of Georgia
Religion and Literature; theories of religion; African American Religions and Literatures
Samira K. Mehta
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder
Religious History in the US; Jewish history in the US; gender and sexuality; religious diversity
Corey Miles
Religion &
Assistant professor of sociology and Africana studies
Tulane University
Kyle Minor
Fellow
Associate Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing, Director of IAHI
Indiana University Indianapolis
English; Creative Writing
Kenzie Mintus
Religion &
Indiana University Indianapolis
William A. Mirola
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Professor of Sociology
Marian University
Religion and social class inequality; social movement activism
John Modern
Fellow, YSAR
Professor, Religious Studies
Franklin and Marshall College
History; Religion; America; Technology; Aesthetics
Besheer Mohamed
Religion &
Pew Research Center
Susanne Monahan
Fellow, YSAR
Montana State University
Andrew Monteith
Religion &
Elon University
Secularism; religion and power in American life
Deborah Dash Moore
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies
University of Michigan
American Jewish History
Katherine Moran
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor of American Studies
St. Louis University
Catholicism in U.S. Culture; U.S. Empire; Transnational American Studies
Monique Moultrie
Biennial, Religion &
Georgia State University
Samuel Moyn
Religion &
Yale University
Max Mueller
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln Mullen
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Associate professor
George Mason University
American Religious History, Data-Driven History
Luis E. Murillo
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial, YSAR
Professor, V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies. Religious Studies and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
University of Iowa
American Catholicisms; Latina/x/o Religions; Sport and Religion
Carmen M. Nanko-Fernandez
Religion &
Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry; Director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program; Director, Master of Arts in Hispanic Theology and Ministry.
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
Latino/a theologies; theological education; sport and theology
D. Keith Naylor
Fellow, YSAR
Occidental College
Lynn Neal
Fellow, YSAR
Professor
Wake Forest University
U.S. Religious History; Religion and Popular Culture
Jessica Nelson
Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Quincy D. Newell
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Hamilton College
Religion in the American West; Gender, Race, Ethnicity; Mormonism
Mark Noll
Biennial
Notre Dame University
Mary Ellen O’Connell
Religion &
University of Notre Dame
Patricia O’Connell Killen
Biennial
Pacific Lutheran University
Religion and Culture in the Pacific Northwest; Catholicism in the U.S.
Kevin L. O’Neill
Fellow, YSAR
University of Tornonto
Robert Orsi
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR Mentor
Northwestern University
Joshua Paddison
Fellow, YSAR
Texas State University
Benjamin E. Park
Religion &
Associate Professor of History
Sam Houston State University
Religion and Politics; Mormonism; Antislavery; Religious Right
Jerry Park
Fellow, Biennial
Associate Professor of Sociology
Baylor University
Sociology of Race and Religion with a Focus on Asian Americans
Michael Pasquier
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History
Louisiana State University
American religious history; American Catholicism; Religion and Environment; Religion in U.S. South
Sara M. Patterson
Fellow
Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Hanover College
Religion in the United States; Gender studies; Race, Ethnicity and religion
Rodger Payne
Fellow, YSAR
University of North Carolina Asheville
Religion in the South; American Catholicism
Elaine Peña
Fellow, Biennial, Editor, Religion &, YSAR
Associate Professor of American Studies
Washington University in St. Louis
Ritual; Borders and Boundaries; Geography of Religion; Performance Theory
Samuel Perry
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
University of Oklahoma
American Religion; Politics; Race; Families; Sexual Behavior
Kristian Petersen
Religion &
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Old Dominion Uinversity
Anthony Petro
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Associate Professor of Religion and WGSS
Boston University
Religion & Politics in the modern US; religion & sexuality; visual culture; religion & medicine
Nichole Phillips
Religion &
Emory University
Church & Society; Religion & Politics; Faith & Science
Sarah Pike
Religion &
California State University, Chico
W. Scott Poole
Religion &
College of Charleston
Amanda Porterfield
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Emerita Professor
Florida State University
American Religious History
Jeremy Price
Fellow
Assistant Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy in Urban Education
Indiana University Indianapolis
Antisemitism; Christian normaility in k12 education spaces
Gregory Price Grieve
Biennial
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sally M. Promey
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR Mentor
Professor
Yale University
Public Display of Religion; Visual/Material Cultures; Materiality, Affect, Spatiality, Modernity
Stephen Prothero
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR, YSAR Mentor
Boston University
Linda Przybyszewski
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of History
University of Notre Dame
Law and religion; legal history; cultural history
Ansley Quiros
Fellow, YSAR
University of North Alabama
Shari Rabin
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion
Oberlin College
American Judaism
Hussein Rashid
Biennial, Religion &
Harvard Divinity School
Marci Reaven
Biennial
Independent Scholar
Kathryn Reklis
Fellow, Biennial
Associate Professor
Fordham University
Religion and Aesthetics; Atlantic World; American Evangelicalism
Leslie Ribovich
Fellow, YSAR
Trinity College
American Religion; Race & Religion; Religion in Public Life; Education
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Biennial, Religion &
Arizona State University
Susan Ridgely
Biennial
University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Religions; Religion and Age; Catholicism
Jana Riess
Religion &
Religion News Service
Kathleen Riley
Fellow, YSAR
Ohio Dominican College
David Robertson
Religion &
Open University
Nancy Marie Robertson
Fellow
Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies; Race
William D. Romanowski
Biennial
Calvin University
Candace Rondeaux
Religion &
Arizona State University
Jennifer Rycenga
Fellow, YSAR
San Jose State University
Robert Saler
Fellow
Associate Professor of Religion and Culture
Christian Theological Seminary - Indianapolis
Eastern Orthodoxy; Conspiracy theories in the United States; Theological Placements in American Culture
Deepak Sarma
Religion &
Associate Professor of religious studies
Case Western Reserve University
Hinduism, South Asian Studies, Indian philosophy
John Schmalzbauer
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Professor & Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies
Missouri State University
Religion in higher education; popular culture/media; Ozarks religion; religion and health
Katherine G. Schmidt
Religion &
Molloy University
Lauren (Chism) Schmidt
Staff
Programs and Operations Manager
Indiana University Indianapolis
Education; Religious Studies
Leigh Schmidt
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
religion and politics; secularism; liberal religious movements
Jeffrey Scholes
Religion &
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Religion and Sports; Political Theology; American Evangelicalism
Kristin Schwain
Fellow, Religion &, YSAR
Associate Professor
University of Missouri
American art and religion; material and visual cultures of religions
Beth Schweiger
Fellow, YSAR
Independent Scholar
Todd Scribner
Religion &
Princeton University
David Sehat
Fellow, Biennial
Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History
John Seitz
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Fordham University
U.S. religions; U.S. Catholicism
Jeff Sharlet
Religion &
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Dartmouth College
Morgan Shipley
Religion &
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Michigan State University
Lisa H. Sideris
Religion &
University of California, Santa Barbara
Danielle Sigler
Fellow, YSAR
University of Texas at Austin
Mark Silk
Biennial
Trinity College
Religion and American Politics; Religion in Public Life; Civil Religion
Lois H. Silverman
Religion &, Biennial
Indiana University Indianapolis
Museums & Spiritual Experiences; Magical Sites & Objects; Well-Being
Kristy Slominski
Fellow, YSAR
University of Arizona
Fred Jr. Smith
Religion &
Emory University School of Law
Lawrence Snyder
Fellow, YSAR
Dean, Potter College of Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies
Western Kentucky University
North American Religious History; Religious Pluralism; History of Western Christianity
Jeanette Reedy Solano
Religion &
California State University, Fullerton
Christopher Soper
Biennial
Pepperdine University
Religion and Politics; Religion and Nationalism; European Islam
Josef Sorett
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Columbia University
Jonathan Sparks-Franklin
Religion &
Independent Scholar
Julia M. Speller
Fellow, YSAR
Chicago Theological Seminary
John Stackhouse
Fellow, YSAR
Samuel J. Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies
Independent Scholar
Evangelicalism
Eleanor J. Stebner
Fellow, YSAR
Simon Fraser University
Brian Steensland
Staff, Religion &
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
Religion; Culture; Politics; Civil life in contemporary American society
Randall Stephens
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of American and British Studies
University of Oslo
American religion; pop music; the American South; conservatism; environmental history
Evelyn Sterne
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Associate Professor
University of Rhode Island
Modern US; New Religions; Communal Societies; Catholicism; Immigration
Brad Stoddard
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &
Assistant Professor
McDaniel College
Religion and Prisons; Entheogens; Critical Religion
Harry Stout
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Yale University
Mira Sucharov
Fellow, Religion &, Biennial
Associate Professor
Carleton College
Jewish politics; Israel-Palestine; op-ed writing and social media engagement
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
Indiana University Bloomington
Matthew A. Sutton
Fellow, Religion &, Biennial, YSAR, Editor
Distinguished Professor
Washington State University
US religion; politics and foreign policy
Angela Tarango
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Trinity University
Native American Religions, Latino Religious Traditions, Pentecostalism, Material Christianity
Ann Taves
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR Mentor
University of California, Santa Barbara
American Religious History; Religious Experience; New Religious Movements
Sarah McFarland Taylor
Fellow, YSAR
Northwestern University
Stephen Taysom
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Cleveland State University
New Religious Movements, American Religion in the long nineteenth century, ritual studies
Kate E. Temoney
Religion &
Montclair State University
T. Paul Thigpen
Fellow, YSAR
Saint Thomas More College
Douglas Thompson
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of History
Mercer University
Civil Rights Movement-20th Century; American Religious History
Peter J. Thuesen
Staff, Religion &, Editor
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
American Religion; Christian History
Scott L. Thumma
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of Sociology of Religion
Hartford International University
Congregational Studies, Megachurches, Nondenominationalism, US Religious Landscape
T. J. Tomlin
Fellow
Associate Professor of History
University of Northern Colorado
Early American cultural and religious history
Alexia Torke
Fellow
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Division Chief of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Indiana University
Ethics; Religion and Medicine; Medical Decisions; Spirituality in Medicine
James Treat
Fellow, YSAR
Unversity of New Mexico
Roberto Trevino
Fellow, YSAR
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
Staff, Editor, Religion &
Associate Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
Black Theology; Womanist Thought; Alternative Christianities in the Black Atlantic; The role of scripture in African and African American Relgious Traditons
Nicole Myers Turner
Fellow, YSAR
Princeton University
Thomas Tweed
Biennial, Fellow, YSAR
University of Notre Dame
History and Historiography of American Religion
Daniel Vaca
Fellow, YSAR
Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities
Brown University
economy and society (incl. business, consumerism, inequality); media; evangelicalism; spirituality
Mark Valeri
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Professor of Religion and Politics
Washington University in St. Louis
Early American religion
Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Biennial
Henry Luce Foundation
Daisy Vargas
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Assistant Professor
University of California Riverside
Latina/o/x religions; Catholic Studies
Grant Wacker
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus
Duke University
American religious history, especially 20th century
Jenna Wagner
Religion &
Case Western Reserve University
Rachel Wagner
Biennial, Religion &
Ithaca College
David Walker Howe
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mormonism, Spiritualism, Technology, Magic, 19th-Century Popular Culture and Religion
Andrew Walker-Cornetta
Biennial
Georgia State University
Wendy L. Wall
Biennial
Binghamton University, SUNY
Jonathan L. Walton
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, YSAR
Dean of the Faculty of Divinity/ Presidential Chair In Religion & Society
Princeton Theological Seminary
African American Protestantism, social and cultural theory, Christian social ethics
Carlton Waterhouse
Biennial
Howard University
Adrian Weimer
Fellow, YSAR
Associate Professor
Providence College
Colonial America; Religion and Politics; Puritanism; Resistance Theory
Isaac Weiner
Fellow, Biennial
Associate Professor
Ohio State University
Law; Sound; Work; Race; Pluralism
Judith Weisenfeld
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, Biennial
Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion
Princeton University
African American Religious History; Religion and Race
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Fellow, YSAR
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Religion and U.S. Slavery; Africana Religions; Women and Religion
Beth Wenger
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History; Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Jewish history and culture; gender, ethnic and religious history
Tisa Wenger
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Associate Professor of American Religious History
Yale University
Religious Freedom; U.S. Empire; Indigenous & Settler Colonial Studies
Aubrey Westfall
Fellow, Biennial
Associate Professor of Political Science
Wheaton College
Minority politics, immigration and citizenship, religion and politics, women and politics
Jeffrey Wheatley
YSAR
Iowa State University
Kayla Renee Wheeler
Religion &
Xavier University
Black Islam, Islam in America, Fashion Studies, Material Culture, Bioethics
Rachel Wheeler
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &
Indiana University Indianapolis
Christopher White
Fellow, Biennial, YSAR
Professor of Religion
Vassar College
Religion & Science; Religion, Media, and Popular Culture; Spirituality
Andrew L. Whitehead
Staff, Religion &
Project Director
Indiana University Indianapolis
Christian Nationalism; Sociology of Religion
Clyde Wilcox
Biennial
Georgetown University
Melissa M. Wilcox
Fellow, Biennial
Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies
University of California, Riverside
Queer & Transgender Studies in Religion; Gender & Sexuality; NRMs; Power, Oppression, and Resistance
Eric Lewis Williams
Religion &
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Peter W. Williams
Fellow, YSAR Mentor
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Miami University (OH)
Architecture; Anglicanism
Rhys Williams
Fellow, Biennial
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Loyola University Chicago
Politics and Political Culture; Social Movements
Anne Blue Wills
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of Religious Studies
Davidson College
U.S. Protestant History and Culture (19th-20th Centuries); Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Jeff Wilson
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies
University of Waterloo
Buddhism in North America; Mindfulness; Unitarian-Universalism
Daniel Winchester
Biennial
Purdue University
Douglas Winiarski
Fellow, YSAR Mentor, YSAR
Professor
University of Richmond
religion in early America; popular religion; material culture; Native American religions
Lauren F. Winner
Fellow, YSAR
Duke Divinity School
Joseph Winters
Religion &
Duke University
Patricia Wittberg
Fellow
Emeritus Professor, Research Associate at CARA
Indiana University Indianapolis
Religious Organizations; Catholicism; Generational Change
Marianne S. Wokeck
Fellow
Chancellor's Professor Emerita of History
Indiana University Indianapolis
Immigration; Ethnicity; History of the North Atlantic World
Janelle Wong
Religion &
Professor of American Studies, Government and Politics
University of Maryland
Richard L. Wood
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of Sociology (and former Senior Vice Provost and Interim Provost)
University of New Mexico
Sociology of religion; social movements; democratic theory; ethnographic methods
Onaje Woodbine
Religion &
American University
Nathaniel Wynne
Staff
Program Coordinator
Indiana University Indianapolis
David Yamane
Fellow, YSAR
Professor of Sociology
Wake Forest University
Sociology of Religion; American Gun Culture
Fenggang Yang
Fellow, Biennial
Professor of Sociology
Purdue University
sociology of religion; immigrant religion; religion in China
David K. Yoo
Fellow, YSAR
University of California Los Angeles
Asian American History/Studies; Ethnic Studies
Wendy W. Young
Fellow, YSAR
University of Florida
Grace Yukich
Fellow, YSAR, Religion &
Associate Professor
Quinnipiac University
sociology of religion; immigration; race; social movements
Hannah Zaves-Greene
Biennial
Sarah Lawrence College
Valarie Ziegler
Fellow, YSAR, Biennial
Professor of Religious Studies
Depauw University
Religion in Popular Culture; Creation Museums; Peace; Activism