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Lake Forest College / Academics / Faculty / Michele Ferris

Michele Ferris

Lecturer in Religion

Religion

Specialization

American Religious History; 19th century German Immigrant History

Education

PhD University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Religions in America, Expected August 2019
BS Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC: Religion, with a minor in German Studies
BA North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: Electrical Engineering

Courses Taught

Religion 175: Early Christianity
Religion 243: Religion and Popular Culture
Religion 212: Global Christianity

Academic Publications

Review of The Communist and the Communitst’s Daughter: A Memoir, Jane Lazarre, Yearbook of German-American Studies. Accepted for publication in 2019.

“God in the 2015-2016 Presidential Debates: Using American Civil Religion and Public Religion to Win Party Delegates”, Religion and Culture Web Forum (2016), https://divinity.uchicago.edu/religion-and-culture-forum.

“The Sholem Community: Reimagining a Jewish Agricultural Community as the First Jewish Resort in the Catskill Mountains”, Communal Societies Journal 33:2 (2013), 105-132. Peer-reviewed.

Religion