Deborah Whitehead

Deborah Whitehead is associate professor and chair of religious studies and associate director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Her research focuses on intersections between religion and philosophy, gender, popular culture, and media in post-Civil War U.S. history.   Her first book focused on gender and the rhetoric of mediation in classical and contemporary American pragmatism, and her current book project analyzes narratives of mediation in contemporary U.S. evangelicalism.  Her work on religion, gender and media in contemporary U.S. evangelicalism, Mormonism, and spiritualism has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and other journals, edited volumes, and public scholarship venues.