Category: Interview

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]