Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is Professor and the inaugural V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies in the Departments of Religious Studies and of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the lived, daily experiences of American Christians and their communities, with research interests that include: American Religions; Ethnographic approaches to the study of religion; Catholic Studies; and Latinx Studies. Dr. Nabhan-Warren holds a BA in Religious Studies and Political Science, and a PhD in Religious Studies, both from Indiana University; she also holds an MA in Religious Studies from Arizona University.
Dr. Nabhan-Warren is a member of The American Academy of Religion, serving as Co-Chair of the Religion and Social Science (RSS) unit. She is the elected Vice-Chair of the Council of Graduate Studies in Religion (CGSR) and serves on the Steering Committee of the journal Spiritus: A Journal of Christianity. Dr. Nabhan-Warren is the author The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality (2013) and Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland (2021), both published by The University of North Carolina Press, where she is also the creator and editor of Where Religion Lives, a book series on innovative ethnographies of religion. Her other books include The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism (New York University Press, 2005); Américan Woman: The Virgin of Guadalupe, Latinas/os, and Accompaniment (Loyola Marymount University Press, 2018); and The Oxford Handbook on Latinx Christianities in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2022).
