Our Community
The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics draws on the vast experience and resources of many people to fulfill its mission: to deepen academic and public understanding of religion and politics in the United States.
Past Fellows
Beginning in 2012, we have hosted a number of junior scholars who have gone on to professional careers at a wide range of educational institutions.
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I am a historian of American religion, specializing in print culture and media technologies.
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I am an interdisciplinary historian with specializations in Latin American and Caribbean history, African American Studies, and religious history.
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I am a historian of twentieth-century U.S. religion, law, and politics, specializing in Roman Catholicism and religious freedom.
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I am a sociocultural anthropologist of religion, race, and migration, specializing in Middle Eastern Christianity, U.S. geopolitics, and Muslim-Christian relations.
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I am an ethnographer of contemporary American religion, focusing on the body, health, capitalism, and religion.
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I am a historian of religion, immigration, and labor in the twentieth-century U.S., specializing in Orthodox Christianity.
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As a historian of religion and law in the United States, my work explores the dynamic relationship between judicial and popular understandings of religious liberty in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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My research takes the history of cognitive disability in the United States as a generative archive for students of religion, one that is dense with questions about sociality and the meanings of human vulnerability.
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My research examines race, religion, and aesthetic production in the hemispheric Americas, with an emphasis on Black identity formation and Roman Catholicism.
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