Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke University Press, 2015) and the award-winning Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke University Press, 2022). His research and teaching examine the roles of affect and power in formations of the secular, religion, race, science, and material culture.