American Academy of Religion

Max K. Strassfeld, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and winner of the ⁠2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies⁠, speaks to Kristian Petersen about their book, ⁠Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2023).

Karen V. Guth, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross and winner of the ⁠2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies [https://aarweb.org/news/2023-aar-book-awards/], speaks to Kristian Petersen about her book, ⁠The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethics-of-tainted-legacies/81F243B32F1679527194D1875A5EBF5D] (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

William Robert, professor of religion at Syracuse University and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award in Religion and the Arts [https://aarweb.org/news/2023-aar-book-awards/], speaks to Kristian Petersen about his book, Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo128919176.html#:~:text=In%20Unbridled%2C%20William%20Robert%20uses,in%20unfamiliar%2C%20even%20uncomfortable%20ways.] (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).

William Calvo-Quirós, associate professor of American culture at the University of Michigan and winner of the 2023 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award [https://aarweb.org/news/2023-aar-book-awards/] from AAR speaks to Kristian Petersen about his book, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/undocumented-saints-9780197630235?cc=us&lang=en&](Oxford University Press, 2022).

Mary Dunn — professor of Modern Christianity in the department of theological studies at Saint Louis University, director of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism, and winner of the 2023 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies — discusses her book Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See with Kristian Petersen.