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Affiliated Faculty

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Core Faculty

Matthew E. Engelke

Professor of Religion; Chair, Department of Religion

Research Interest

Media
Time/Modernity
Christianity
Secularism
Sub-Saharan Africa
Texts
Rituals

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Cella Masso-Rivetti

PhD Student

Research Interest

North American Religions
Secularism
Catholicism
Gender and Sexuality
Science and Medicine
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Nanea Renteria

PhD Student

Research Interest

North American Religions
Religion and Law
Indigenous Feminisms
Gender and Sexuality
Secularism
Ethnobotany
Department of Religion80 Claremont Avenue, Room 103, MC 9610 · New York, NY 10027

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