In the Classroom
We offer a broad and diverse undergraduate curriculum focusing on the intertwined relationship between religion and politics across U.S. history, from the colonial era to the present. We also support early career scholars with fellowships that offer teaching and research opportunities at the Center.
Colloquium
The Center sponsors an ongoing colloquium to foster discussion of new scholarship in the broad domains of American religion, politics, and culture. It is a research-oriented workshop that aims to build a multidisciplinary community among students, fellows, and faculty, all drawn to the intellectual questions that animate the Center’s work. Professor Laurie Maffly-Kipp is the organizer of the colloquium in 2023-2024.
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Marie Griffith, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Pretending Not to Know: Rediscovering Clergy Sexual Abuse Over and Over”
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Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
“Downfall: The Civil War as a Crisis in Church and State”
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Judah Isseroff, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“On the Possibility of Politics after Survival”
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Abbie Modaff, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Rebellious Elites: The Ladies’ Pioneer Society in the 1870s and 1880s”
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Jesse Lee, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“本土 – hondo – homeland: Buddhist Churches and the Religious Bureaucracy of Japanese American Internment”
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Tazeen Ali, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Britannia’s a bitch: Gender, Empire, and the Muslim Other in Riz Ahmed’s The Long Goodbye”
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T. J. Tomlin, University of Northern Colorado History
Lotteries, Chance, and Providence in America
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Kate Moran, St. Louis University American Studies
The San Francisco Magdalen Asylum: Catholicism, Girlhood, and the Carceral State
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
The Making and Un-Making of Mormon America: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and Religion
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Elaine Peña, Performing Arts Department
Crossing the Border with the Virgin of Guadalupe: Infrastructure, Enactment, and the Politics of Exceptional Mobility
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Judah Isseroff, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Playing Jewish Political Geography with Hannah Arendt
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Eric Stephen, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“To Excite Agreeable Sensations”: The Knowlton Affair, the Comstock Campaign, and the Transnational Role of Law in Shaping a ‘Secular’ Sexual Ethics during the Late Victorian Era
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Aram Sarkisian, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Everything is going on as normal”: Orthodox Events of Abundant Evil
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Michael Baysa, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Protestant Hebrew: Performing Religious Authority through Eighteenth-Century Language Production
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Cody Musselman, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Broken Bodies: Strife, Scandal, and Schism in CrossFit
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Mark Valeri, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
The Paradox of Moral Liberty in Revolutionary America
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John Inazu, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics/WU Law
“Assembly, Pluralism, and Identity”
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Marie Griffith, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Religion and Politics in the Clergy Abuse Crises of the U.S. Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention”
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Max Greenberg, Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
“Jewish ‘Pioneers’ Cemeteries: Preserving and Exhuming the Myth of Religious Freedom in the American West”
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Joanna Dee Das, Performing Arts Department
“For God and Country: Branson Entertainment and the Religious Right”
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Aram Sarkisian, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“‘What are you going to do about it?’ Towards Orthodox Christian Histories of North America”
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Susanna De Stradis, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“The Catholic Argument for the ‘Nation Under God,’ 1939-1965”
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Tazeen Ali, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Muslims on TV: Politics, Sex, and American Islam in Popular Culture”
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Esra Tunc, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Debating Muslim Giving in Islamic Investment and Financialized Philanthropy”
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Mark Valeri, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Eighteenth-Century Missionary Conceptions of Indian Conversions”
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Cody Musselman, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Our Product is People”: The Economy of Charisma at SoulCycle
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Stephanie Li, Department of English
“Self(ish)-Care in Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation”
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Marie Griffith, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church”
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Elena Kravchenko, Religious Studies Program
“Liturgies of Love, Joyful Sorrow, and Nothingness: Orthodox Sounds and Racial Identities”
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Candace Lukasik, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Martyrs and Migrants”
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Miriam Levin, Case Western University Department of History
“How Missionary Men and Women used Colleges to Change the World and Ended Fitting Them to Modernizing Forces Abroad”
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Alexia Williams, University of Illinois Department of Religion
“Julia Greeley, Denver’s Angel of Charity”
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Of Comity, Commerce, and Cold War: Mormons and the Philippines, 1945-2020”
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Christina Davidson, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Social Morality: Protestants, Letrados, and the Religious Foundations of a Liberal Nation”
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Tazeen Ali, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
“Beyond TV Terrorists: Hulu’s Ramy and Post-2016 Media Portrayals of Arab Muslims”
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Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Georgia State University Religious Studies
“A Type Almost Extinct”
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Mark Valeri, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Power, Ceremony, and Roman Catholicism in Bernard and Picart’s Ceremonies and Religious Customs of All the Peoples of the World
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Fannie Bialek, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Accounting for Love
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Paige McGinley, Performing Arts Department
Acting “As If You Were Free to Act:” James Lawson, Spirit Technique, and Training for Direct Act
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Mark Valeri, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Choosing Religion: Protestantism, Other Religions, and Conversion in Britain and New England
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Marie Griffith, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Women’s Varied Roles in the History of Clergy Sex Abuse within the U.S. Catholic Church
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Valerie Elverton-Dixon, Independent Scholar
The Christology of Jeremiah Wright, Jr.
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Tazeen Ali, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Interfaith and Intrafaith Solidarities at the Women’s Mosque of America
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Laurie Maffly-Kipp, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
‘This is our time’: Mormons in West Africa
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Andrew Walker-Cornetta, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Bad Devotion: Mothers, Mental Deficiency Professionals, and the Profligacy of Care
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Elena Kravchenko, Washington University in St. Louis Religious Studies Program
Making Children Orthodox: Parental Disciplines and Desires
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Joe Bartzel, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Racial Justice, Transition, and Uncertainty in the U.S.
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Christina Davidson, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Converting Hispaniola: Religious Race-Making in the Dominican Americas
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Alexia Williams, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Venerable Henriette Delille: A Colloquial Hagiography
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Candace Lukasik, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts
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Lerone Martin, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
The FBI and Christianity Today