About the Event
Hosted by AAR’s Publications Committee
For many years, the AAR has organized meetings around issues concerning “women in publishing.” As is well known, there have been longstanding discrepancies in publishing running along gender lines. From the perspective of 2025, we can easily point to positive changes that include many more women in key editorial roles and greater number of publications by women; the overall discrepancies, while not ideal, have improved. But, what has changed? Are the concerns of 20 years ago the same as today? What has shifted? What concerns remain?
This webinAAR brings together several voices to discuss these and related issues.
Event Guidelines
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Panelists
Stephanie Mitchem is Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Carolina. She is an educator, author, feminist/womanist with a focus on interdisciplinarity. In her research and writing, she utilizes anthropology, history, cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies. She uses multiple disciplines since religions are social institutions that impact and influence people’s lives. Her most recent book is Race, Religion and Politics: Towards Human Rights in the US. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).
Brandy Daniels is Associate Professor of Theology & Religious Studies and Co-Director of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. She is the author of multiple articles and is (finally!) completing her first monograph, How (Not) to Be Christian? Identity, Formation, and the Future in Feminist Theologies, forthcoming from Fordham University Press.
Kathryn Lofton is Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University. A historian of religion focusing on popular culture in the United States, her earliest scholarly writing examined the history of Christian modernism and fundamentalism and the historiography of African American religions. She is the author of two books, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) and Consuming Religion (2017).
Moderator
Andrea Jain is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford, 2020), and editor of the Journal of American Academy of Religion. She writes and speaks about capitalism, religion, sex, and society in our contemporary world
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