Amanda M. Nichols

Amanda M. Nichols (PhD, University of Florida) is an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar whose research investigates how ethical perspectives, informed by different social and religious ideologies, shape individuals’ environmental perspectives and activism. Drawing on archival research and interviews with women from across the North American anti-nuclear movement, her primary research project showed the significant and unique contributions that women had in setting the tone for political activism movement wide. Nichols is currently an Adjunct in the University Writing Program at University of Florida. She serves as Managing Editor of Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and as an Assistant Editor of Journal of Posthumanism.

Alejandro Escalante

Alejandro Escalante (PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill) is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at King’s College London. His work draws from Caribbean theory and philosophy and gender and sexuality studies, tracing the ways in which we make, re-make, and unmake ourselves as human. Inspired by the Jamaican philosopher and novelist Sylvia Wynter and French ethnographer Georges Bataille, his works seeks to understand human relationships with water, using the violent histories of transatlantic enslavement to theorize escape from the terror of “Man.” His work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Journal of Africana Religions, and Feminist Theology.

Elonda Clay

Elonda Clay is the Director of the Library at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She is also a scholar of religion and PhD candidate in Theology and Religious Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her dissertation examines how direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry, genealogy television, and popular racialized notions of biology are mediated and remediated through popular entertainment media and the Internet. Her work has been supported by the American Society for Human Genetics, the Forum for Theological Education, the John Templeton Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the United Methodist Women of Color, GreenFaith Coalition for the Environment, and Research Institute for Philosophy Hannover.

Gabriel Dharmoo

Gabriel Dharmoo is a composer, vocalist, improviser, interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Montréal – Tio’Tia:Ke (Canada). He has received many awards for his compositions, such as the Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger Prize for his chamber work Wanmansho (2017) and the Conseil Québécois de la Musique Opus Award for his opera À chaque ventre son monstre (2018). Gabriel has travelled internationally, notably with his solo show “Anthropologies imaginaires” which was awarded at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (2015) and the SummerWorks Performance Festival (2016). Other key projects include his album Quelques fictions, their drag persona Bijuriya (@bijuriya.drag) as well as video art projects that mix voice and makeup (Portraits, Ghaav).

Hillary Kaell

Judith Ellen Brunton
Hillary Kaell is Associate Professor of anthropology and religion at McGill University and a faculty fellow at Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies. She is author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (New York UP, 2014) and, most recently, Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States (Princeton, 2020), winner of the 2021 Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History. Her current project explores ecological disruptions during hurricane season on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
She serves as Director of TERA.
Judith Ellen Brunton is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion working at the intersection of religious studies and the environmental humanities. Judith’s current project takes an ethnographic and archival approach to explore how legacies of oil extraction allow for contemporary imaginaries of the good life in Alberta. Judith is broadly interested in questions of land and labour, secularity and enchantment, religion-making, and method. Judith held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholarship to pursue her research, a Louisville Dissertation Fellowship, and was a Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Graduate Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute. She is Project Lead for TERA.

Nadia Huggins
Nadia Huggins was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A self-taught artist, she works in photography and has built a body of images that are characterized by her observation of an interest in the everyday. Her work merges documentary and conceptual practices, which explore belonging, identity, and memory through a contemporary approach focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea. Nadia’s photographs have been exhibited internationally. In 2019, her solo show Human stories: Circa no future took place at Now Gallery, London UK. Her work forms part of the collection of The Wedge Collection (Toronto), The National Gallery of Jamaica (Kingston), and The Art Museum of the Americas (Washington).
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