Episode 3 | Ulrike Wiethaus

Ulrike Wiethaus, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment as full professor in the Department of Religion and in the American Ethnic Studies Program. Her research interests focus on the history of Christian spirituality with an emphasis on gender justice and political history, and most recently, historic trauma, religion, and the long-term impact of US colonialism.  She is the author or editor and co-editor of numerous articles and monographs, including the monograph German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), and American/Medieval. Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer, co-edited with Gillian R. Overing (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016).