Lucia Hulsether

Associate Professor
department of religious Studies

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

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.