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Lucia Hulsether

Margaret W. Harmon Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Old Main 102

Lucia Hulsether is a scholar of religion, culture, and politics in the Americas, with teaching and research specialization in critical theory; history and anthropology of Christianity; religion and economy; feminist and queer critique; and critical pedagogy. Her book, Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke University Press, 2023), won the 2024 Best First Book Prize from the Cultural Studies Association. She is currently working on two interconnected book projects on the politics and histories of civic education in the United States. With Tina Pippin, she co-hosts Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast. You can access her personal webpage here.

BA, Agnes Scott College, 2011

PhD, Yale University, 2020

Master of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, 2014