2. The Contingency Crisis
Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion - Lauren Horn Griffin
Emily D. Crews [+]
University of Chicago
Emily D. Crews is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she
teaches in the Religious Studies Department and the College. She completed her PhD in
History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2021. Her work focuses
on the ways that women’s reproductive bodies are linked to projects of identity construction, maintenance, and negotiation in Nigerian Pentecostal immigrant communities in the United States. In the classroom she thinks with students about categories and ideas in the study of religion through mundane phenomena like love, sororities, Jane Austen, and Alabama football (Roll Tide).
Description
This paper considers the adjunctification of university faculty, a disappearing job market, and the perils of contingency. Has framing this as a crisis worked to provoke change?