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Religious Studies Department

Alexandra PrinceAlexandra Prince

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies

Office:  Ladd 205B
Phone:  (518) 580-8404
Email:  aprince@skidmore.edu

EDUCATION:

  • PhD, History, University at Buffalo (2020)
  • MA, History & Media, University at Albany (2014)
  • BA, History & Religious Studies, McGill University (2009)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

American Religious History; Mad Studies; New Religious Movements; Indigenous Studies; History of Psychiatry; Religion and the Law; American Print Cultures; Digital Humanities

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • “‘If you don’t love children, you don’t understand socialism’: The Children of Peoples Temple.” In

    Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present, edited by Victoria Wolcott, 143-174. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2024.

  • “‘Driven Insane by Eddyism’: Christian Science, Popular Psychopathology, and a Turn of the Century Contest over Faith and Madness” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 31, no. 3. December 2021.
  • “Stirpiculture: Science-Guided Human Propagation and the Oneida Community.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 52, no.1. (2017): 76-99.