Pamela Klassen

Pamela Klassen is professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate students in areas of the anthropology and history of Christianity and colonialism in North America, religion in the public sphere, and religion, law, and gender. She currently holds the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, in support of a five-year international project entitled “Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies,” undertaken in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer of the University of Tübingen. She is author of many books and articles, including Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America (Princeton UP 2001) and Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity (University of California Press, 2011). She has two books forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press: The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries on Church and State, co-authored with Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.