Alexandra Prince
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Office: Ladd 205B
Phone: (518) 580-8404
Email: aprince@skidmore.edu
EDUCATION:
- PhD, History, University at Buffalo (2020)
- MA, History & Media, University at Albany (2014)
- BA, History & Religious Studies, McGill University (2009)
BIO
I am a historian of American religions and community-engaged digital humanities scholar focused on the cultural history of American and Indigenous new religious traditions. Currently, I am working on my first book project, Mad Religion: Faith and Insanity in America, which explores the contentious history of bio-psychiatric interpretations of American religious life.
Since 2022, I have collaborated with 含羞草传媒 students on the Jonestown Transcription Project, which contributes to the Jonestown Institute sponsored by the Special Collections of Library and Information Access at San Diego State University.
In collaboration with MDOCS, I contribute to the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community Archives project through digitization, transcription and service-learning projects.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
American Religious History; Mad Studies; New Religious Movements; Indigenous Studies; History of Psychiatry; Religion and the Law; American Print Cultures; Digital Humanities
COURSES TAUGHT
- Studying Religion in America
- Indigenous Religious Freedom
- Religion and Madness
- Peoples Temple and Jonestown
- Queering Religion
- Nonhuman Worlds (Scribner Seminar)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- 鈥溾�業f you don鈥檛 love children, you don鈥檛 understand socialism鈥�: The Children of Peoples
Temple.鈥� In
Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present, edited by Victoria Wolcott, 143-174. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2024.
- 鈥溾�楧riven Insane by Eddyism鈥�: Christian Science, Popular Psychopathology, and a Turn of the Century Contest over Faith and Madness鈥� Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 31, no. 3. December 2021.
- 鈥淪tirpiculture: Science-Guided Human Propagation and the Oneida Community.鈥� Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 52, no.1. (2017): 76-99.