CMRC Mission Statement

We are a multidisciplinary community of scholars, educators, and students dedicated to the study of the rich and complex relationship between media and religion in an entangled world. At the core of our gathering is a deep belief in the nurturing capacity of reading and writing together and of the act of studying in the spirit of the collective.

We seek to open up new and creative spaces of reflection, critique, and collaboration. Our conferences, seminars, research projects, and public outreach are carefully designed to generate an intellectual and social energy that transcends our academic habits of analysis and assembly. Our Center insists not only on the force of scholarship, but also on the liberatory potential of research as a common practice rooted in a decolonial ethos of equitable curation and radical encounter.

People

Talia Aygun

Media Studies
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Art Bamford

Media Studies
Art Bamford (He/Him) is a Doctoral Candidate at University of Colorado – Boulder and a fellow at the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. He has an M.A. in mass communication and media studies from University of Denver and M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Art has co-authored two books including Every Parent’s Guide to Navigating Our Digital World (2018) with Kara Powell and Brad M. Griffin. His current research explores...
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Nabil Echchaibi

Director
Media Studies
Nabil Echchaibi is Associate Professor of media studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching focus on media, religion and the politics and poetics of Muslim visibility, and decolonial theory. He is the author of Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal and the co-editor of International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked...
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Reily McGee

Media Studies
Reily McGee (She/They) is a Master's Student at the University of Colorado - Boulder and a fellow at the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. Her research focuses on studying the intersections between digital gaming, religion, trans identity, and the body. They have presented on topics such as trans modification and virtual pilgrimage and written for publications such as Rhytmns, Press Start, and NEXT . Beyond academics, she spends much...

Samira Rajabi

Senior resident fellow
Media Studies
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Nathan Schneider

Senior resident fellow
Media Studies
Nathan Schneider (assistant professor, Media Studies) works at the intersections of technology, religion, and social change. He is the author of several books, most recently Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy . His articles have appeared in publications such as Harper’s , The Nation , The Guardian , Vice and The Catholic Worker . Find more information at nathanschneider.info .

Matau Setshase

Media Studies

Deborah Whitehead

Associate director
Religious Studies