Sustainability

Amanda Baugh

Dr. Amanda Baugh
Assistant Professor
Religious Studies
Phone: x4733
Mail Code: 8316
 

Dr. Baugh received her PhD from Northwestern University’s Department of Religious Studies in 2012, and holds a MA from Northwestern University and a BA from Hendrix College. Amanda Baugh specializes in the study of religion and American culture, focusing on the intersections of religion and environmental concern. Her research explores power dynamics related to race, ethnicity, and class in the "greening" of American religion. She is revising her dissertation research, an ethnographic study of an interfaith environmental group in Chicago, into a book manuscript.

Dr. Baugh’s teaching interests include the study of religion and ecology, religion and American culture, and religious studies theory.