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Professor

Robert A. Orsi

Northwestern University
Religion scholar; Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Religious Studies
Elected
2008
Professor of Religion; Grace Craddock Nagle Professor of Catholic Studies. Research concerns include the history and contemporary practice of Catholicism in the United States, in social and cultural context. Draws on ethnographic methods as well as archival sources. Also studies the history and theory of the study of religion from early modernity to the present.
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