The board of directors of the association for public religion and intellectual life.
Sofia Ali-Khan Sofia Ali-Khan is a powerful anti-racist storyteller and a public interest lawyer. Her book, A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America was published by Random House in 2022 and won the 2023 Nautilus Gold Book Award for Social Justice. Writing at the intersection of…
Jonah Boyarin Jonah Boyarin (he/they) is a political-cultural writer, educator, and community organizer. Their writing has appeared in Jewish Currents, In geveb, and elsewhere. In his day job, as the Jewish Communities Liaison for the New York City Commission on Human Rights, Jonah authored the City’s official curriculum on antisemitism, using an intersectional lens, and…
Stephanie Mitchem I understand teaching and learning as “r/evolutionary acts”* and engage graduate and undergraduate students in the radical art of thinking. As a scholar, I utilize an interdisciplinary lens (history, ethics, theology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography) to engage complex and critical topics. I am a religions scholar, who has been accused of being a…
Björn Krondorfer Björn Krondorfer has a wide-ranging interest in applying religious studies to various segments in culture, society, and politics. Initially pursuing a theology degree in Germany, he switched to comparative religious studies at Temple University in Philadelphia (PhD 1990). His extensive scholarship on the intersection of masculinity and religion helped to define the field of…
Pamela D. Winfield Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon University, NC. Her award-winning book Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism and her co-edited volume (with Steven Heine) entitled Zen and Material Culture were both published by Oxford University Press. She has edited several themed issues of CrossCurrents Journal and published extensively…
S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate Born in the year of the Fire Horse, Professor Rodríguez-Plate has traveled the world seeking ways that people practice and/or fight against religious traditions, whether ancient or modern. Convinced that religion has less to do with beliefs than with bodies, Rodríguez-Plate queries the ways people connect with physical objects through sense perception:…
Shabana Mir Shabana Mir was born in London, grew up in Lahore, studied in the U.K. and then moved to the U.S. Who knows what happens next? She’s passionate about religion and gender, and spends much of her time with teaching, research, and service in those areas. Shabana started out as a professor of English…
Randall Styers Randall Styers has been member of the board since 2003. He has worked as a corporate lawyer in New York and Los Angeles, a delivery driver, an academic dean, and a musician. Styers now teaches at UNC Chapel Hill, where his research and teaching focus on the place of religion in modern American…