Lucia Hulsether

Associate Professor of Religious Studies   

Phone: 518-580-8404
Email: lhulseth@skidmore.edu
Office: Ladd 210

Education:

• PhD and MA, Yale University, Religious Studies (2020)
• MDiv, Harvard Divinity School (2014)
• BA, Agnes Scott College, Religious Studies and Sociology/Anthropology (2011)

Research and teaching areas:

• Cultural Studies
• Religions of the Americas
• History and Anthropology of Christianity
• Religion and Economy; Social Movements
• Secularism and Secularity
• Feminist and Queer Studies
• Critical Theory
• Ethnic Studies
• Critical Pedagogy
• Creative Writing

Courses taught:

• Studying Religion in America
• Religion and Society
• The Christian Right
• Loss, Grief, and Activism
• Religion and the Scientific Imagination
• Organize! Solidarity in Theory and Practice
• Religion, Sex, Citizenship
• Critiques of Religion and Capitalism
• Education, Power, and Social Justice (Scribner Seminar)

Selected publications:

Book:

Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke University Press, 2023).

Selected articles:

 “Ends and Outs: Whither Fanon? and the Sonic Resonances of Black Debate,” Political Theology 26, no. 1 (2025): 105-114. With Timothy Byram.

“Family Corporation v. Minstrel Feminism: Reproducing Religious Freedom from Hobby Lobby to Notorious R.B.G.” differences: a journal of feminist interpretation, 34, no. 2 (2023): 58-83.

 “Introduction: Is Capital Secular?” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 87, Issue 3, September 2019: 581–595. With Rebecca Bartel.

“Buying into the Dream: The Religion of Racial Capitalism in Coca-Cola’s World,” Public Culture 30, no. 3 (September 2018): 483-508.

“The Grammar of Racism: Religious Pluralism and the Birth of the Interdisciplines,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86, no. 1 (March 2018): 1-41.

Chapters in edited volumes:

Tabitha’s Trauma: Christian Nationalism, Centrist Jeremiad, and the Reconstruction of the American Family,” Political Theology Reimagined, eds. Alex Dubilet and Vincent Lloyd (Durham: Duke University Press, 2025).

“Decolonization, TM” for Religion and U.S. Empire, eds. Tisa Wenger and Sylvester Johnson (New York: NYU Press, 2022): 298-319.