Catherine Brekus
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School, the University of Chicago. An American religious historian, Dr. Brekus teaches courses on every period of American religious history from the founding of the colonies to the present, but is particularly interested in early America. She is the author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, and is currently writing a book entitled Sarah Osborn’s World: Popular Christianity in Early America. Her other projects include editing a collection of essays, Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past, and co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Christianity in America with W. Clark Gilpin and Martin E. Marty. She is an editor of The Journal of Religion. She has been involved in several collaborative research projects: the History of Christian Practice in America, Perspectives on Children in Christian Thought, and Religion, Feminism, and the Family.
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