Lucia Hulsether

Professor Hulsether is a scholar of interdisciplinary religious studies with expertise in feminist and queer studies; labor and capitalism; critical pedagogy; and religion, culture, and politics in the Americas. Her first book, Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke University Press), received the 2024 Best First Book Prize from the Cultural Studies Association. This fall, she will offer two courses: an introductory class on the global Christian right and an upper-level seminar on the genealogies of fascist metaphysics. Professor Hulsether’s arrival at Macalester is also a return. After more than a decade in the US northeast, where she completed her graduate work and held her first academic appointment, she is grateful for a chance to reconnect with her family roots in the Twin Cities.