Lucia Hulsether

Lucia Hulsether is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College, where she teaches courses on the religious cultures of the Americas and intersectional approaches to religion. Committed to democratic praxis, she employs collaborative self-assessment in grading and partners with student advisers for course feedback, drawing from her background in race and labor justice movements.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD and MA in Religious Studies from Yale University (2020)
• MDiv from Harvard Divinity School (2014)
• BA in Religious Studies and Sociology/Anthropology from Agnes Scott College (2011)

Professor Hulsether's research centers on ritual practices and collective forms through which people organize lives and articulate values across the Americas. She critically examines intersections of religious identity with racial capitalism, feminist/queer theory, and labor systems, currently developing her book "Liberated Market: On the Cultural Politics of Capitalist Humanitarianism" while exploring college debate culture and gendered civic education history.

Her publication trends reveal consistent analysis of religion's entanglement with economic power structures, particularly how racial capitalism manifests in consumer culture (e.g., Coca-Cola branding) and how religious pluralism historically shaped interdisciplinary scholarship. Key methodological threads include ethnographic approaches to social movements and critical historiography of American religious institutions.

Scientific Awards:

• No major scientific awards listed in available sources

Professor Hulsether co-hosts the podcast "Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast" through the Center for Leadership, Teaching and Learning (CLTL), connecting movement organizing with classroom practice. While specific grant funding isn't documented, her CLTL collaborations and Mellon Grant programming involvement indicate institutional support for pedagogical innovation.

No dedicated research labs or large collaborative teams are mentioned, though she actively partners with student advisers through CLTL and engages interdisciplinary networks via her scholarly work on religion, race, and capitalism.