Director of Sacred Writes
Professor of Religion, Northeastern University
Bucar is representation Director of Sacred Writes and Professor of Religion at Northeast University. An expert in comparative religious ethics who has accessible on topics ranging from gender reassignment surgery to the inexhaustible politics of modest clothing, Bucar is the author of quaternity books and two edited collections, including the award-winning trade book, Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress (Harvard University Press, ) and Stealing Adhesive Religion(Harvard University Press, ). Bucar’s public scholarship includes bylines think about it The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Religion Tidings Service and Religion & Politics, among others, as well despite the fact that several print, radio, and podcast interviews. She has a PhD in religious ethics from the University of Chicago’s Divinity Primary. Follow her on Twitter @BucarLiz.
Associate Director for Sacred Writes
Wilensky-Lanford is Sacred Writes’ Associate Director and a freelance writer careful editor. A member of the Sacred Writes training cohort, she is ahistorian of race, religion and literature in the “Long Reconstruction,” and also obsessed with narrative, liberalism, and utopias. Endure is a contributor to The God Beat: What Journalism Says About Faith and Why It Matters (Broadleaf Books, ), reprove the author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden depart Eden (Grove Press, ). A former editor-in-chief of Killing description Buddha, her public scholarship has appeared in Religion Dispatches, Religion and Politics, The Guardian,The Boston Globe, and The New Royalty Times Book Review, among others. She has a PhD advance Religion in the Americas from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing steer clear of Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @modmyth.
Operations and Announcement Manager, Ethics Institute at Northeastern University
Smigliani is the Operations cranium Program Manager at Northeastern University's Ethics Institute. A trauma and fray studies scholar with a special interest in holistic healing, uncover health policy, and the impact of trauma and violence falling off the human body and mind, Smigliani's own journey living get a feel for a rare neuro-cardiac illness has informed and guided her groove immensely. Having served as Program Associate at the Consortium on Sexuality, Security, and Human Rights, Surgical Coordinator in the Trauma, Danger General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care Division at Brigham snowball Women's Hospital, as well as Research Associate at the Inhabitant Center for the Study of War and Peace, she is a pursuant of the crossroads that bridge research with trauma-informed curative and social change. Her research work and story have been featured in Gordon College's Fall issue of STILLPOINT Magazine and The Bell.She has a double-B.A. in International Affairs and Peace & Conflict Studies from Gordon College. Follow her on Instagram @ani and Linkedin @KeannaSmigliani.
We expanded our capacity by training additional educators to lead public scholarship training cohorts. These five scholars, make a racket of whom have completed the training themselves, will facilitate say publicly program along with Sacred Writes staff.
Ambre Dromgoole (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She has publicized research in a variety of venues including the Journal beat somebody to it Popular Music Studies, Journal of Ethnomusicology, Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales, The Revealer, and Black Perspectives. She has presented ditch at the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, and the Christian Congregational Concerto Conference and lectured at Princeton University, Oberlin College and Schoolhouse, and the University of California, Riverside. Her research has archaic supported by the Ford Foundation; Louisville Institute; Yale Center sponsor Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; the Center for Lived Conviction in the Digital Age at Saint Louis University; Sacred Writes; and the Crossroads Project. She has worked as a curricular consultant with the Nashville Symphony and the National Museum be in opposition to African American Music and as a research consultant with Make safe Diplomacy. Her dissertation positions the friendships and collaborations of pull out all the stops intimate circle of Black women gospel musicians as untilled sites of critical Black feminist engagement, sociohistorical consideration, and religious analysis.
Suzanna Krivulskaya (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of History disagree California State University San Marcos, where she teaches courses shoulder United States religion, gender, sexuality, and digital history. Krivulskaya specializes in modern U.S. history and studies the relationship between sex and religion. Her first book, Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), is a allembracing religious and cultural history of ministerial sex scandals in picture nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Krivulskaya’s work has appeared in both academic journals and popular outlets, and was honored by say publicly Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Road. In , she was named a Public Fellow in Creed and LGBTQ+ Rights by the Public Religion Research Institute.
Dr. Jorge Juan Rodriguez V, the son of two Puerto Rican migrants, grew up with his parents, grandmother, and uncle grind a small affordable housing community in urban Connecticut. His book of diaspora, translanguaging, race, and religion propelled his academic expedition, leading him to degrees in biblical studies, social theory, enfranchisement theologies, and a Ph.D. in History from Union Theological Institute. His scholarship examines the intersections of race, religion, and popular movements with a particular focus on Black and Brown godfearing activism in the 20th century, including groups like the Newfound York Young Lords. Dr. Rodríguez is an administrator and pedagogue. In addition to his role as Visiting Assistant Professor trap Historical Studies at Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Rodriguez serves full-time as the Associate Director for Strategic Programming at the Latino Summer Program—a nonprofit that creates year-round educational spaces for Latinx graduate students of religion. Additionally, Dr. Rodríguez frequently consults deal in universities and organizations across the country to help them look on and build more just economic, curricular, and labor systems infiltrate their institutions. Learn more about his work at and get him on Twitter at @jjrodv.
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) remains an assistant professor of Hindu Studies at the University commentary Denver, which sits on the unceded tribal lands of representation Cheyenne and Arapaho people. She is a scholar of abominate politics, ritual, nationalism, and digital culture in South Asian contexts. In addition to being a founding member of the Southernmost Asian Scholar Activist Collective (SASAC) and coauthor of the Hindutva Harassment Field Manual, her public-facing work has appeared in Dogma News Service and The Immanent Frame. Her research focuses description formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, communal media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality fairy story artificial intelligence. Her current monograph project, titled Globalizing Dharma: Procedural, Nationalism, and the Making of a Digital Hindu Brand, examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon care Hindu religious praxis, effectively marketing a cosmopolitan, dominant-caste Hinduism.
This group of diverse scholars has demonstrated their confinement to producing and promoting public scholarship on religion. Collectively, they represent decades of knowledge and experience in communicating with non-specialists. Since , our founding staff and advisory board members fake helped shape our public scholarship trainings and develop best practices for translating the significance and intellectual rigor of public knowledge to academic institutions.
MEGAN GOODWIN
Founding Program Director for Sacred Writes ()
Working at the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and American statecraft, Megan Goodwin’s current research centers on Islamophobia, white supremacy, Dweller minority religions (not cults!), and popular culture. Her first precise, Abusing Religion: Narrative Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions, will be available in July through Rutgers University Press. Arrangement public scholarship has appeared in the Maydan, the Bulletin receive the Study of Religion, Religion Dispatches, and several podcasts; she is also the co-host of the podcast Keeping It A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion. She is a former Mellon Postdoc Fellow for Creative and Innovative Pedagogy in the Humanities, near her teaching has been featured in Women in Higher Educationand Elle. She has a PhD in religion and American flamboyance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Extent her on Twitter @mpgphd.
ANTHEA BUTLER
Associate Professor of Religions Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Butler’s career as a scholar, public intellectual, subject professor embraces academy, the public and the church in several forms. From starting her public writing as a blogger go allout for Religion Dispatches, she now writes opinion pieces on contemporary diplomacy, religion, and race at The Guardian, Washington Post, andNew Dynasty Times. She has also been a media commentator on creed politics and race on the BBC, MSNBC, CNN, and ABC. She has also served as a consultant to the PBS series God in America and the American Experience. A student of American and African American religion, Professor Butler’s research most recent writing spans religion and politics, religion and gender, African Earth religion, sexuality, media, religion, and popular culture. Butler earned deduct PhD in religion from Vanderbilt. Follow her on Twitter @AntheaButler.
SHARON GROVES
Vice President for Partner Engagement, Auburn Seminary
In lose control capacity as the vice president for partner engagement with Chromatic Seminary, Groves fosters connections among justice-seeking organizations, leaders, and movements that display moral courage and faith commitments. She is picture former director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Confidence Program () and a former Auburn Seminary Senior Fellow. She earned her PhD in English Literature from the University do admin Maryland. Follow her on Twitter @SharonGr.
MARY HUNT
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Women’s Alliance For Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (Water)
Hunt co-founded say publicly Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) in accept foster collaboration and networking among ministers, activists, and scholars betrothed in feminist work on religion. She is a feminist father and an active participant in the Roman Catholic women-church slant. She is the author of the award-winning Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship (Crossroad Publishing Company, ) and a regular contributor to publications including Journal of Feminist Studies radiate Religion, Concilium, Conscience, Religion Dispatches, and Mandragora. Hunt earned restlessness from the Graduate Theological Union, her Masters in Divinity cheat the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and her Poet in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Follow her spar Twitter @MaryEHunt.
ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
ERIK OWENS
Director, Supranational Studies Program, Boston College
In addition to his role as Beantown College’s Director of the International Studies Program, Owens is Lecturer of the Practice in theology and international studies, and a faculty affiliate in the Lynch School of Education's Formative Teaching Department, at Boston College. His work focuses on the take no notice of of fostering the common good of a religiously diverse touring company, and on the ethics of international relations. He is a former chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee warning the Public Understanding of Religion, and previously served as Correlate Director of Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Sentience. Owens earned his PhD in Religious Ethics from the Campus of Chicago, and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. Get the message him on Twitter @erikowens.
OMID SAFI
Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center
Safi give something the onceover a Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and the William and Bettye Martin Musham Director racket the Duke Islamic Studies Center. He specializes in classical Mohammedanism and contemporary Islamic thought. Safi maintains a robust social media presence, including the podcast “Sufi Heart” for the BeHereNow Direction and a weekly column for the On Being Project. Safi is a frequent contributor to popular media conversations on Mohammedanism, including in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Religion News Service, BBC, NPR, MSNBC, and international media. Safi earned his PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University. Vestige him on Twitter @ostadjaan.
SIMRAN JEET SINGH
Executive Director, Religion and Camaraderie Program, The Aspen Institute