Rachel Lindsey

Departmental Area: American Religious History Research Areas : Address: Department of Religion 641 University Way / P.O. Box 3061520 The Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1520 Office: 107B DOD Hall Email: rmlindsey@fsu.edu Office Hours: Curriculum Vitae

Background

Rachel McBride Lindsey is a historian of religion in America who has teaching and research interests in visual and material culture, religion in popular culture, race, and gender. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2012 where she wrote a dissertation that explores the entangled histories of vernacular photography and American religion in the nineteenth century.

Research Interests

• Material cultures of religion
  
• Race and religion
  
• Tactility and religious experience

Teaching Areas

• Religion in American History
  
• Introduction to World Religions
  
• Material Culture in the Study of Religion
  
• American Religion and the Movies
  
• Technologies of Religious Experience in American History