Editorial Team

Editor

K. Merinda Simmons is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Her books include Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora (Ohio State UP, 2014), The Trouble with Post-Blackness (co-edited with Houston A. Baker, Jr., Columbia UP, 2015), and Race and New Modernisms (co-authored with James A. Crank, Bloomsbury, 2019). Along with serving as the editor of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, she edits the book series Concepts in the Study of Religion: Critical Primers (also with Equinox Publishing). Her areas of research and teaching include gender studies and queer theory, Black and postcolonial studies, literary theory, southern studies, and method and theory in the study of religion. She is currently working on a book called Gender: A Critical Primer.

Advisory Board

  • Serawit Bekele Debele, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Denmark
  • Breann Fallon, Sydney Jewish Museum, Australia
  • Mitsutoshi Horii, Shumei University, Japan and Chaucer College Canterbury, UK
  • Craig Martin, St. Thomas Aquinas College, USA
  • Richard Newton, University of Alabama, USA
  • Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, UK
  • Steven Ramey, University of Alabama, USA
  • Vaia Touna, University of Alabama, USA