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TALKING HEADS
The Revealer was created first and foremost as a resource for journalists and media makers. To that end, we seek to bridge the divide between media makers and academe. Following is a guide to scholars from around the world who work with New York University's Center for Religion and Media and would like to work with journalists and media makers. They're among the big thinkers in their respective fields, but they're not "authorities"; by their involvement with the Center for Religion and Media, they signal their commitment to the idea of media as an ongoing conversation, one in which the expertises of scholars, media makers, and ordinary people complement one another rather than competing for the last word.
You can search under headings, or browse through our complete directory. If you don't see someone to comment on what you're researching, contact the editors of The Revealer. We'll find a source for you.
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Abortion
Faye Ginsburg is an anthropologist at NYU, and author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and other awards and fellowships, she is the author/editor of four books.
Art, Architecture, and Memorials
Joan R. Branham is an assoc. professor of art history at Providence College. She is the author of numerous articles on Christian and Jewish art and architecture, ancient and contemporary, and has been an on-camera consultant for PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from September 11th to role of blood and sacrifice in religious ritual.
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Jeffrey Feldman is an anthropologist at NYU who writes on “Museums, Italy, Commemoration, Holocaust, Memory, Tragedy, and Ghettos.”
Judith L. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College (where she also teaches in Jewish Studies and Women's Studies) has done ethnographic and archival research in Iran, Israel, Paris and Rome. She has published on ethnic, religious, and sexual identity; consumer culture; and aesthetics and modernity. Her article on the tabloid press, "The Origin of the Specious," was recently published in differences in April 2004. Her current fieldwork is in Rome.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a University Professor of performance studies at NYU and author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity (with Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman); and Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Lucjan Dobroszycki).
Fred Myers is a professor of Anthropology at New York University. His research interests include Aboriginal Australia, anthropology and art, indigenous rights, material culture and exchange, place and space and cultural property. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Biotechnology
Buddhism
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
Catholicism
Elizabeth A. Castelli is an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, and Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Her research interests include “martyrdom, scripture, violence, feminism, sexuality, and the Catholic Church.” She is currently working on a project about persecution and contemporary evangelical culture. She has been a source for The New York Post and a contributor to The Revealer.
Children, Parenting, and Religion
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Miriam Peskowitz teaches at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Judaism Since Gender and Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History. Her research interests include “bible theme parks, american religion, extreme religion, motherhood and the politics of parenting.”
Christian-Jewish Relations
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Joan R. Branham is an assoc. professor of art history at Providence College. She is the author of numerous articles on Christian and Jewish art and architecture, ancient and contemporary, and has been an on-camera consultant for PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from September 11th to role of blood and sacrifice in religious ritual.
Danielle Celermajer is a member of the Center for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Her research interests include religion and human rights, inter-religious education, inter-religious dialogue, apologies and reconciliation.
Early Christianity
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Joan R. Branham is an assoc. professor of art history at Providence College. She is the author of numerous articles on Christian and Jewish art and architecture, ancient and contemporary, and has been an on-camera consultant for PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from September 11th to role of blood and sacrifice in religious ritual.
Elizabeth A. Castelli is an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, and Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Her research interests include “martyrdom, scripture, violence, feminism, sexuality, and the Catholic Church.” She is currently working on a project about persecution and contemporary evangelical culture. She has been a source for The New York Post and a contributor to The Revealer.
Evangelicalism
Elizabeth A. Castelli is an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, and Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Her research interests include “martyrdom, scripture, violence, feminism, sexuality, and the Catholic Church.” She is currently working on a project about persecution and contemporary evangelical culture. She has been a source for The New York Post and a contributor to The Revealer.
Omri Elisha is an anthropologist and an postdoctoral associate at the Center for Religion and Media who specializes in contemporary American Christian culture and faith-based initiatives.
Faye Ginsburg is an anthropologist at NYU, and author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and other awards and fellowships, she is the author/editor of four books.
Faith-Based Initiatives
Omri Elisha is an anthropologist and an postdoctoral associate at the Center for Religion and Media who specializes in contemporary American Christian culture and faith-based initiatives.
Falun Gong
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
Gay Marriage
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Hate Crimes and Religion
Allen Feldman is a political/medical anthropologist at NYU who has conducted ethnographic field research on political violence and memory in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the homeless in New York City. Feldman is the author of Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. Phone: 212 998-5096
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Hinduism
Holocaust
Judah M. Cohen teaches in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies department of NYU. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and several articles about music in Jewish life.
Jeffrey Feldman is an anthropologist at NYU who writes on “Museums, Italy, Commemoration, Holocaust, Memory, Tragedy, and Ghettos.”
Homosexuality
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Human Rights
Elizabeth A. Castelli is an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, and Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Her research interests include “martyrdom, scripture, violence, feminism, sexuality, and the Catholic Church.” She is currently working on a project about persecution and contemporary evangelical culture. She has been a source for The New York Post and a contributor to The Revealer.
Danielle Celermajer is a member of the Center for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Her research interests include religion and human rights, inter-religious education, inter-religious dialogue, apologies and reconciliation.
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Fred Myers is a professor of Anthropology at New York University. His research interests include Aboriginal Australia, anthropology and art, indigenous rights, material culture and exchange, place and space and cultural property. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Indigenous Religions
Fred Myers is a professor of Anthropology at New York University. His research interests include Aboriginal Australia, anthropology and art, indigenous rights, material culture and exchange, place and space and cultural property. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Islam
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Deborah Kapchan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition and the forthcoming Travelling Spirit Masters: Sound, Word and Image in the Global Marketplace. Her research interests include North African Studies, North African Islam, narrative, music, popular culture and popular religion.
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Judaism
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Joan R. Branham is an assoc. professor of art history at Providence College. She is the author of numerous articles on Christian and Jewish art and architecture, ancient and contemporary, and has been an on-camera consultant for PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from September 11th to role of blood and sacrifice in religious ritual.
Judah M. Cohen teaches in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies department of NYU. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and several articles about music in Jewish life.
Jeffrey Feldman is an anthropologist at NYU who writes on “Museums, Italy, Commemoration, Holocaust, Memory, Tragedy, and Ghettos.”
Judith L. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College (where she also teaches in Jewish Studies and Women's Studies) has done ethnographic and archival research in Iran, Israel, Paris and Rome. She has published on ethnic, religious, and sexual identity; consumer culture; and aesthetics and modernity. Her article on the tabloid press, "The Origin of the Specious," was recently published in differences in April 2004. Her current fieldwork is in Rome.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a University Professor of performance studies at NYU and author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity (with Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman); and Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Lucjan Dobroszycki).
Deborah Dash Moore is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion at Vassar College. An historian of American Jews, her books include At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews, To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A., and forthcoming, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. She has also co-edited Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia and written on New York City. General research interests include American Jews, American Judaism, Jewish Women in America, New York City, Miami, LA, World War II.
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Miriam Peskowitz teaches at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Judaism Since Gender and Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History. Her research interests include “bible theme parks, american religion, extreme religion, motherhood and the politics of parenting.”
Jeremy Stolow teaches Sociology and Communication Studies at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). His research interests include religion and media, religion and technology, Jewish Orthodoxy, Spiritualism, religious consumerism, and the contemporary religious publishing industry.
Media and Religion
Barbara Abrash, associate director of NYU's Center for Religion and Media, studies and makes documentary media, with a particular focus on activist-related work. She is co-producer of 9/11 and After: A Virtual Casebook.
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at NYU, is the publisher of The Revealer. He also publishes a blog of press criticism, Pressthink, and he is the author of What Are Journalists For? and Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press. His research interstes include: "culture of the press, journalistic principles & beliefs, democracy & the media, politics & the press, professionalization in journalism, web journalism." Read Rosen on The Revealer: "Journalism is itself a Religion."
Jeremy Stolow teaches Sociology and Communication Studies at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). His research interests include religion and media, religion and technology, Jewish Orthodoxy, Spiritualism, religious consumerism, and the contemporary religious publishing industry.
Missionaries
Omri Elisha is an anthropologist and an postdoctoral associate at the Center for Religion and Media who specializes in contemporary American Christian culture and faith-based initiatives.
Pop Culture
Judah M. Cohen teaches in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies department of NYU. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and several articles about music in Jewish life.
Deborah Kapchan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition and the forthcoming Travelling Spirit Masters: Sound, Word and Image in the Global Marketplace. Her research interests include North African Studies, North African Islam, narrative, music, popular culture and popular religion.
Fred Myers is a professor of Anthropology at New York University. His research interests include Aboriginal Australia, anthropology and art, indigenous rights, material culture and exchange, place and space and cultural property. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Ann Pelligrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Jeremy Stolow teaches Sociology and Communication Studies at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). His research interests include religion and media, religion and technology, Jewish Orthodoxy, Spiritualism, religious consumerism, and the contemporary religious publishing industry.
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
Protestant Schism
Race
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
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Women in Traditional Faiths
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Faye Ginsburg is an anthropologist at NYU, and author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and other awards and fellowships, she is the author/editor of four books.
Deborah Kapchan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition and the forthcoming Travelling Spirit Masters: Sound, Word and Image in the Global Marketplace. Her research interests include North African Studies, North African Islam, narrative, music, popular culture and popular religion.
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Deborah Dash Moore is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion at Vassar College. An historian of American Jews, her books include At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews, To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A., and forthcoming, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. She has also co-edited Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia and written on New York City. General research interests include American Jews, American Judaism, Jewish Women in America, New York City, Miami, LA, World War II.
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Miriam Peskowitz teaches at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Judaism Since Gender and Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History. Her research interests include “bible theme parks, american religion, extreme religion, motherhood and the politics of parenting.”
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
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China
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
Iran
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Iraq
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Ireland
Allen Feldman is a political/medical anthropologist at NYU who has conducted ethnographic field research on political violence and memory in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the homeless in New York City. Feldman is the author of Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. Phone: 212 998-5096
Israel
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a University Professor of performance studies at NYU and author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity (with Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman); and Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Lucjan Dobroszycki).
Northern Africa
Deborah Kapchan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition and the forthcoming Travelling Spirit Masters: Sound, Word and Image in the Global Marketplace. Her research interests include North African Studies, North African Islam, narrative, music, popular culture and popular religion.
South Africa
Danielle Celermajer is a member of the Center for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Her research interests include religion and human rights, inter-religious education, inter-religious dialogue, apologies and reconciliation.
Allen Feldman is a political/medical anthropologist at NYU who has conducted ethnographic field research on political violence and memory in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the homeless in New York City. Feldman is the author of Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. Phone: 212 998-5096
General Directory
Barbara Abrash, associate director of NYU's Center for Religion and Media, studies and makes documentary media, with a particular focus on activist-related work. She is the co-producer of 9/11 and After: A Virtual Casebook.
Adam Becker is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Religious Studies at New York University. He is the author of Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of “Scholastic” Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia, and co-editor of, The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, religious history and Christian communities of the Middle East, early Christianity, women and Christianity and the reception of classical philosophy.
Joan R. Branham is an assoc. professor of art history at Providence College. She is the author of numerous articles on Christian and Jewish art and architecture, ancient and contemporary, and has been an on-camera consultant for PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from September 11th to role of blood and sacrifice in religious ritual.
Elizabeth A. Castelli is an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, and Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. Her research interests include “martyrdom, scripture, violence, feminism, sexuality, and the Catholic Church.” She is currently working on a project about persecution and contemporary evangelical culture. She has been a source for The New York Post and a contributor to The Revealer.
Danielle Celermajer is a member of the Center for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Her research interests include religion and human rights, inter-religious education, inter-religious dialogue, apologies and reconciliation.
Judah M. Cohen teaches in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies department of NYU. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and several articles about music in Jewish life.
Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include "gender; feminism; sexuality; human rights; trauma; September 11, 2001."
Allen Feldman is a political/medical anthropologist at NYU who has conducted ethnographic field research on political violence and memory in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the homeless in New York City. Feldman is the author of Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. Phone: 212 998-5096
Jeffrey Feldman is an anthropologist at NYU who writes on “Museums, Italy, Commemoration, Holocaust, Memory, Tragedy, and Ghettos.”
Faye Ginsburg is the David Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU, where she is also the founding Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History. Prior to coming to the academy, she worked as documentary producer, as an independent and for WCCO-TV. Recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and other awards and fellowships, she is the author/editor of four books, including Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, and most recently the edited collection, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. She is currently finishing a book entitled Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media in a Digital Age.
Judith L. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College (where she also teaches in Jewish Studies and Women's Studies) has done ethnographic and archival research in Iran, Israel, Paris and Rome. She has published on ethnic, religious, and sexual identity; consumer culture; and aesthetics and modernity. Her article on the tabloid press, "The Origin of the Specious," was recently published in differences in April 2004. Her current fieldwork is in Rome.
Deborah Kapchan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition and the forthcoming Travelling Spirit Masters: Sound, Word and Image in the Global Marketplace. Her research interests include North African Studies, North African Islam, narrative, music, popular culture and popular religion.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a University Professor of performance studies at NYU and author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity (with Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman); and Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Lucjan Dobroszycki).
Minoo Moallem is professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Her new book is entitled Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005). Her research interests include postcolonial and transnational feminist cultural studies, Islamic nationalism and transnationalism, immigration and diasproa studies, media and cultural citizenship.
Deborah Dash Moore is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion at Vassar College. An historian of American Jews, her books include At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews, To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A., and forthcoming, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. She has also co-edited Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia and written on New York City. General research interests include American Jews, American Judaism, Jewish Women in America, New York City, Miami, LA, World War II.
Fred Myers is a professor of Anthropology at New York University. His research interests include Aboriginal Australia, anthropology and art, indigenous rights, material culture and exchange, place and space and cultural property. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals.
Ann Pellegrini teaches in NYU’s religious studies department and the performance studies department. She is the author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She has contributed in New York Newsday on same-sex marriage (co-author) and The New York Times on gender and "hate crimes."
Miriam Peskowitz teaches at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Judaism Since Gender and Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History. Her research interests include “bible theme parks, american religion, extreme religion, motherhood and the politics of parenting.”
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Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at NYU, is the publisher of The Revealer. He also publishes a blog of press criticism, Pressthink, and he is the author of What Are Journalists For? and Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press. His research interstes include: "culture of the press, journalistic principles & beliefs, democracy & the media, politics & the press, professionalization in journalism, web journalism." Read Rosen on The Revealer: "Journalism is itself a Religion."
Jeremy Stolow teaches Sociology and Communication Studies at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). His research interests include religion and media, religion and technology, Jewish Orthodoxy, Spiritualism, religious consumerism, and the contemporary religious publishing industry.
Angela Zito is chair of NYU Religious Studies and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media. She is the author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. Her research interests include China and Chinese religions, Buddhism, Falun Gong, and Asian religions in popular culture. A former editor for The China Daily, she has been a source for stories in The NYTimes and other media.
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