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I'm a professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, with a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University.
My research examines the history and practice of North American Christianity. I'm interested in how the divine, the miraculous, and the unseen become real for people in particular times and places, especially through material objects and commercial practices. Lately I've been thinking about the connections that we imagine and foster with people and places globally. These themes are central in my first book on Holy Land pilgrimage and in the book I'm working on now, which explores the development of international child sponsorship programs in Christian missions and NGOs. I began research on that project as a visiting fellow at Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion in 2014. Currently, I sit on the executive board of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion and am a Young Scholar in American Religion for 2013-2015. New: I explore moral narratives and politics on American Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Religion & Society, current issue here.
"Promised Land: American Missionaries Chase the Lapsed Catholics of Montreal." In the Walrus magazine, January-February issue. |
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