Sacred Writes Public Scholarship

sacred-writes.org2025 Carpenter Cohorts: Summer — Sacred WritesSacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...

A belated but no less grateful & enthusiastic introduction thread for Sacred Writes public scholarship training Summer Cohort, for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality! Meet them below and here: www.sacred-writes.org/2025-carpent...

Ramisuddeen Vypukaran Muhammed Mansoor, Master’s student in Religion in the Public Sphere, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Welcome Ramisuddeen!

Christopher B. Zeichmann, lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University. Welcome Chris! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Mayuri Patankar, Independent Research Scholar. Welcome Mayuri! www.linkedin.com/in/mayuri-pa...

Raj Kumar Singh, PhD researcher in Anthropology at University of Delhi, India. Welcome Raj! www.linkedin.com/in/dr-raj-ku...

Marie Olson Purcell, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) www.linkedin.com/in/marie-ols...

Seth Palmer, Assistant Professor at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. Welcome Seth!

Terence Mayo, Coordinator of the African American Roundtable at Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion, Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Welcome Terence! www.linkedin.com/in/terence-m...

Lauren K. McCormick, postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. Welcome Lauren! bsky.app/profile/lolo...

Jimmy Hoke, Independent Scholar & adjunct faculty at United Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Welcome Jimmy! bsky.app/profile/jimm...

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Paula Landim Nazaré, a graduate student at Federal University in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Welcoime Paula! www.instagram.com/paulinhaland...

Esther Brownsmith, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at University of Dayton, in Ohio. bsky.app/profile/brow... Welcome Esther!

Samantha Carwyn, M.Div., with the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Welcome Sam! www.linkedin.com/in/sam-carwyn/

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Claudia Alvarez, PhD student in Religion & Society at Princeton Theological Seminary. x.com/Claudia52602...

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Dr. Jimmy Hoke

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20 Aug 2025

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Also huge kudos to @sacredwrites.bsky.social for training and encouragement to create more public scholarship.

6 July 2025

Hello there scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality. Tomorrow--Monday July 7th--is the deadline to apply for Sacred Writes online public scholarship training August Intensive!

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6 July 2025

The training will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays in August from 12-1pm, and will pay each selected scholar a stipend. For more details, see: www.sacred-writes.org/apply

6 July 2025

Applications due by end of day 7/7! You can fill out yours here: forms.gle/3REKf4CH8eaH...

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Esther Brownsmith, PhD

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3 June 2025

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17 Apr 2025

Hi there! Applications to the May-June online session of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship Training for scholars of religion, gender, and/or sexuality are DUE MONDAY! Take a second and apply, it will be fun I promise :) forms.gle/xeJWXcnQYw1x...

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21 Apr 2025

Today's the day! Get those training applications in to join Sacred Writes online in May and June scheming about how to get your expertise in religion, gender, and sexuality out into the public conversation.

10 Mar 2025

Welcome to our first Sacred Writes Classical Ideas scholar interview from our new trainings focused on religion, gender, and sexuality! Thank you @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social and @gregsoden.bsky.social

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Episode 317 w/ Kelsey Hanson Woodruff discusses Post-Evangelical Feminist Communities on Digital Media from 2002-2024, the importance of public scholarship, and more! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas Thank you, @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social @sacredwrites.bsky.social

sacred-writes.org2025 Carpenter Cohorts: Spring Semester — Sacred WritesSacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...

Please join me in welcoming the members of our Spring Semester public scholarship training cohort for scholars of religion, gender and sexuality! Learn more about them all here: www.sacred-writes.org/2025-carpent...

Lucas Wilson, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga, is an award-winning author and the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy. Welcome Lucas! www.instagram.com/lukeslamdunk...

Rebecca Wolfe @rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, with a PhD in Sociology from UCSF, where she examined bodily experiences of disordered eating and sexual dysfunction among people raised as women in Protestant purity culture. Welcome Rebecca!

Khanum Shaikh is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies & Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research on gender in contemporary Pakistan is funded by the NEH and the Fulbright Foundation. Welcome Khanum! www.instagram.com/khanums50/

Tess Starman is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Howard University studying intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power at the nexus of religion and politics. Welcome Tess! www.linkedin.com/in/tess-star...

Sohini Sarah Pillai, @sohinipillai.bsky.social is Assistant Professor of Religion, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Marlene Crandell Francis Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Kalamazoo College. She studies Hindu traditions, epic narratives, Indian cinema & women in religion. Welcome Sohini!

Saraswati Pottekkatt is a Masters student in Sutra and Tantra atThe Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Thought, and a member of the Western States Center’s inaugural Commons Cohort which brings together faith and civic leaders to respond to oppression. Welcome Saraswati!

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Shantanu Mehra, PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Canada, studies how the Twelver Shia Muslim community of Toronto navigate Islamophobia in the Canadian multicultural public sphere. Welcome Shantanu! x.com/shantanumehra

Cathy Melesky Dante, is a PhD candidate in Theology at Marquette University, has served as a social worker doing child abuse prevention trainings in Catholic parishes, a campus minister, and currently as a spiritual director. Welcome Cathy!

Amanda Hernandez @uhmanduhdawn.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology & affiliated with Feminist Studies, Race & Ethnicity Studies, at Southwestern University. She studies how white supremacy and sexism show up in U.S. Christian groups. Welcome Amanda!

Celene Ibrahim, PhD, a faculty member in Religious Studies and Philosophy, The Groton School, a scholar of Qur’anic studies, gender studies and interreligious relations, and author of the award-winning Women and Gender in the Qur'an from OUP. Welcome Celine! www.linkedin.com/in/celene-ibrahim

Swasti Bhattacharyya is professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Buena Vista University, who is writing a book about the women of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram, an intentional, spiritually-focused women’s community in rural central India. Welcome Swasti! www.linkedin.com/in/swasti-bh...

sacred-writes.org2025 Carpenter Cohorts — Sacred WritesSacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...

Please put your virtual hands together for the intrepid cohort of religion, gender, and sexuality scholars selected for our January Intensive Public Scholarship Training, funded by the Carpenter Foundation! 👏 meet them below and www.sacred-writes.org/carpenter-co...

Kelsey Hanson Woods @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Harvard University, where she is working on an ethnography of digital communities of post-evangelical feminists. Welcome Kelsey!

7 Jan 2025

Apologies, that's Kelsey Hanson Woodruff! @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social

Dana Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University, where she writes about how law and religion construct mothers and motherhood. Welcome Dana!

Aisha Lovens is a PhD student in African American Preaching & Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary, where she studies sex rhetoric in Black churches and the liberative possibilities of womanist theology. Welcome Aisha!

Peach Hoyle is a PhD student in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, where they conduct ethnographic research into the dynamics of resistance and compliance in women’s interfaith organisations. Welcome Peach!

Mahruq Khan is Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she researches LGBTQ+ Muslims; Islamic feminisms; anti-Muslim racism and xenophobia in the U.S. www.linkedin.com/in/mahruq-kh...

Beck A. Henriksen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Rhodes College, where they are examining trans artists’ responses to medical care in the context of politicized Christianity. Welcome Beck!

Amy Fallas is a PhD Candidate in History at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social and the Orient Institut in Beirut, where she researches religious difference, charitable networks, and historical memory in the Middle East. Welcome Amy!

Alexiana Fry is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, where she studies the intersections of gender, sexuality, migration, and trauma in specific biblical texts. Welcome Alexiana! www.linkedin.com/in/alexiana-...

Destinee Bates, is an MDiv student in Religion and the Black Experience at Union Theological Seminary, where she thinks about perceptions of beauty, desirability, and self-expression within racialized contexts. Welcome Destinee! @unionseminary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/teawithdesti...

Mickey Correa is Senior Director of Behavioral Health at The LGBT Community Center in NYC, and a PhD student in Social Welfare at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/mickey-co... Welcome Mickey!

Tazeen Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studies how American Muslim women negotiate the Islamic tradition to cultivate religious authority and build gender-equitable worship communities. Welcome Tazeen!