- Phone:
- (812) 856-4542
- Email:
- nai@indiana.edu
- Department:
- Religious Studies
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Sycamore Hall 201
Sycamore Hall 201
I am a sociocultural anthropologist who studies religion and secular governance in the contemporary world. I am particularly interested in how the separation of church and state idealized by classical Western liberalism has been disrupted and altered by the rise of social movements in the 1960s, the revitalization of religion in the 1970s, the emergence of neoliberal economics in the 1980s, the spread of governmental policies to cultivate “good” or “moderate” religion in the aftermath of 9/11, and the emergence of authoritarian populism in more recent years.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies