Alexandra Prince

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies

Office:  Ladd 205B
Phone:  (518) 580-8404
Email:  aprince@skidmore.edu

EDUCATION:

• PhD, History, University at Buffalo (2020)
• MA, History & Media, University at Albany (2014)
• BA, History & Religious Studies, McGill University (2009)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

American Religious History; Mad Studies; Disability Studies; New Religious Movements; Native American Religions; Black Religions; History of Psychiatry; Religion and the Law

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “‘If you don’t love children, you don’t understand socialism’: The Children of Peoples Temple” In Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present, ed. Victoria Wolcott. SUNY Press. Forthcoming.
• “‘Driven Insane by Eddyism’: Christian Science, Popular Psychopathology, and a Turn of the Century Contest over Faith and Madness” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 31, no. 3. December 2021.
• “Stirpiculture: Science-Guided Human Propagation and the Oneida Community.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 52, no.1. (2017): 76-99.