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Recipient of the 2006 Runner-Up for Best New Scholarly Journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Associate Professor of religion and the visual arts

Texas Christian University

Department of Religion

Box 298100

Fort Worth, Texas  76129

USA

(01) 817.257.6444

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2855 S. University Dr

Beasley Hall

Fort Worth, TX 76129

My work:

Working between words and images, my teaching and research focus on how ways of seeing affect ways of being religious. What humans 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 designate 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:

1. teaching university students
   

2. writing for and presenting to scholarly and public intellectual audiences
   

3. professional programming and organizing that brings together students, scholars, and broader communities
   

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