Curriculum Vitae

I work at the nexus of words and images. My teaching and research focus on how ways of seeing affect ways of being religious, and thus also, human. What people look at, the type of images created, and how humans learn to see images, are all shaped by cultural, biological, and religious environments. I use the phrase "religious visual culture" to conjure the interdisciplinary nature of my methodology and subject matter, as I keep abreast of developments in cultural anthropology, art history, film and media studies, alongside my home discipline, religious studies.

My work has several manifestations that reach a variety of audiences:

• Teaching undergraduate students
• Writing for and presenting to scholarly and public intellectual audiences
• professional programming and organizing that brings together students, scholars, and broader communities

Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, was the 2006 runner up for Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals