Matthew J. Smith is a transdisciplinary scholar of religion, race, and U.S. empire with overlapping specialties in the study of gender/sexuality, decolonial movements and methodologies, and the environmental humanities. He serves as the director of the Religious Studies program at Alma, teaching a wide range of course offerings on the study of religion as it is lived in people’s everyday lives.
Dr. Smith holds a Ph.D in Religious Studies from Northwestern University where he was trained in the study of American religions and served as a Mellon Fellow in the Comparative Study of Race and Diaspora. Dr. Smith also holds a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts from Anderson University. His research has been generously supported by the Buffett Center for Global Studies, the Louisville Institute, IU’s Center for Religion & the Human, and the Henry Luce Foundation.
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Matthew J. Smith is a transdisciplinary scholar of religion, race, and U.S. empire with overlapping specialties in the study of gender/sexuality, decolonial movements and methodologies, and the environmental humanities. He serves as the director of the Religious Studies program at Alma, teaching a wide range of course offerings on the study of religion as it is lived in people’s everyday lives.
Dr. Smith holds a Ph.D in Religious Studies from Northwestern University where he was trained in the study of American religions and served as a Mellon Fellow in the Comparative Study of Race and Diaspora. Dr. Smith also holds a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts from Anderson University. His research has been generously supported by the Buffett Center for Global Studies, the Louisville Institute, IU’s Center for Religion & the Human, and the Henry Luce Foundation.
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