Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Amy L. Allocco is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. She graduated from Colgate University, earned her MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and completed her PhD at Emory University. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research carried out in South India on snake goddess traditions and contemporary Hindu women's ritual practices, Allocco is currently completing a monograph focused on snake worship and the ritual repertoire associated with nāga dōṣam, an astrological malady linked to delayed marriage and infertility. She has authored several articles and book chapters and is coeditor with Brian K. Pennington of "Ritual Innovation in South Asian Religions" (manuscript in progress). [aallocco@elon.edu]
Sarah Azaransky teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She is author of The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith (2011). [sarahazaransky@sandiego.edu]
Sarah N. Cross's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ars Medica, The Healing Muse, Journal of Medical Humanities, New Physician, Pharos, and YEW. Her prizes include the William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize and the Legible Script Creative Arts Award. She is a physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology, specializing in Maternal Fetal Medicine, at Yale University.
Antoinette DeNapoli teaches at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She teaches a survey course on Asian religions and specific courses on Hinduism, Buddhism, Indian and Tibetan mystical traditions of yoga and tantra, asceticism, the divine personality, gender and religion, and religion and globalization in India. Antoinette's research focuses on a female expression of vernacular asceticism in Rajasthan, India. She has been traveling to South Asia and working with Indian holy people since 2001. Antoinette has published several articles in the journals Asian Ethnology, Journal of Hindu Studies, Religion Compass, and Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds. She is currently working on her book manuscript titled, "Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan." [memsahb2007@gmail.com] [End Page 187]
Doreen M. Drury is a lecturer in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Drury has been thinking and writing about Pauli Murray for twenty years. She is honored to have an article entitled "Love, Ambition, and 'Invisible Footnotes' in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray" in Black Genders and Sexualities: Critical Black Studies, edited by Shaka McGlotten and Dána-Ain Davis (2012). Drury's dissertation, "'Experimentation on the Male Side': Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Pauli Murray's Quest for Love and Identity, 1910-1960" (Boston College, 2000), analyzes Murray's gender and sexuality at the intersections of race and class. [doreen.drury@umb.edu]
Naomi R. Goldenberg is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies and former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her areas of specialization include religion and popular culture, religion and gender, and religion and psychoanalysis. She has a keen interest in the emerging field of "critical religion," which focuses on deconstructing the category of religion and its relationship to concepts such as "the secular," and "politics." With coeditors Timothy Fitzgerald and Trevor Stack, she is compiling a collection of essays to advance theory in this area. Goldenberg continues to support feminist scholarship in religious studies as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Her published books include Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion, and Psychoanalysis (1993) and Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions (1979). She is currently writing a book whose working title is "The Category of Religion in the Technology of Contemporary Statecraft." [naomi4339@rogers.com]
Nina Hoel is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town. Her postdoctoral work is a continuation of her PhD research, which explored South African Muslim women's conceptualizations of sex and sexuality in Islam and their actual lived experiences in intimate relationships. Hoel lectures in courses on religion and gender, and religion and ecology, in the Department of Religious Studies, UCT, and is a researcher at the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. [ninahoel@gmail.com]
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