Education
2021 Ph.D., Religious Studies, The University of Iowa
Title: Secular Embodiments: Body Management, Protestant Culture, and American Secularism in the Twenty-First Century
Directors: Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
Committee Members: Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Naomi Greyser, and Raymond Mentzer
2017 The Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
2017 The Graduate Certificate in College Teaching
2018 M.A., Religious Studies, The University of Iowa
Comprehensive Exam Areas: American Religions; Critical Theory and
Religion; and Religion, Food, and the Body
2011 M.A., Middle East Studies, The University of Washington
Thesis: Fashioning Identities: New Relationships with Fashion and Modesty in Turkey
2009 B.A., Sociology of Religion, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Thesis: Unveiling New Orientalism: An Exploration in Images
2008 B.M., Instrumental Music and Religious Studies, Concordia College
Thesis: The Body’s Iron Cage and Its Relationship to the Protestant Ethic Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
“Whose Techno-Utopia? Power, Privilege, and the Religio-Secular Frameworks of the Contemporary Biohacking Movement.” Religion Compass 16:11-12 (November 2022): 1-10.
“Digital Waistlands: Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture 9 (2020): 207-227.
“Weighty Matter(s): Religion, Secularism, and American Weight Loss Culture.” Religion Compass 14:2 (February 2020): 1-10.
“Spreading the Religion of Thinness from California to Calcutta: A Critical Feminist Postcolonial Analysis” with Michelle Lelwica and Jenna McNallie. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 24:1 (Spring 2009): 20-41. (Published under Emma Hoglund.)
Textbook Entries
“Evangelical Christianities in North America.” Bloomsbury Religion in North America. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
“Women and Christianity.” Bloomsbury Religion in North America. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Book Reviews
Review of The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land, by Pamela E. Klassen. Material Religion 15:5 (July 2019): 644-645.
Review of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, by Donovan O. Schaefer. Material Religion 12:4 (December 2016): 515-516. Memberships
American Academy of Religion
International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture
Theta Alpha Kappa
Alpha Kappa Delta
