Category: Interview
Protestant Roots of American Media
Transparency and the Right to Opacity
An Internet of Ownership
Courage Is Contagious
What are some aspects of your scholarly background that you would like to share? I have always felt like an accidental traveler into the study of religion. I grew up in a broadcasting family―both of my parents and my step mother all worked in network television and then in the cable television industry. From a […]
Joy and Outrage
What are some aspects of your scholarly background that you would like to share? My PhD is in communication from the University of California, San Diego. When I was in graduate school, I was trained in historical materialism, the political economy of communication and media, feminist theory, and cultural studies. And one aspect that was […]
War Machines
What are some aspects of your scholarly background that you would like to share? For twenty years, I have focused on global communication and social/political change, notably on the intersection of media, geopolitics, culture, and identity. Specifically, this means that I am interested in how forms of culture, particularly popular culture, are politicized, and how the […]
Everything Is Public
How would you describe your scholarly background? Unlike most people I know, I am trained as a religious historian, not of a period, but of two-thousand years of Christian history, which makes me a bit of anomaly in the world of Religious Studies. Currently, I would say I am a historian, and religion and media […]
Supernatural Communications
Please say a bit about your past experiences. How would you describe your education, research and positionality? Within the field of religious studies, which is my primary disciplinary home, I work in the area of religion and North American culture. I use textual analysis to explore ways that religious and cultural discourses intersect and the […]
Radical Traditions
Your work deals with a variety of subject matters ranging from God and the Catholic religion to the Occupy Wall Street movement and cooperative businesses. Is there a general theme or concern that ties your work together? The best way I have found to answer this question is to say that I am interested in […]