New Editor for Body and Religion journal

Posted May 12, 2019

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Zubko will be taking over as Editor of our Body and Religion journal as of the 15th May 2019. Katherine is replacing the founding editors Graham Harvey and Shawn Arthur and we thank them for getting this publication off to a great start.

Body and Religion, now in its third year, welcomes submissions which can be made through the journal website:

https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/BAR/index

Some information on Katherine:

Katherine C. Zubko (Ph.D. Emory University) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Distinguished Professor of the Humanities (2018-22) at University of North Carolina Asheville. Her areas of expertise include aesthetics, ritual, performance and embodied religion in South Asia. Zubko is the author of Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam (Lexington Books, 2014). Current research interests include exploring the bodied aspects of conflict transformation, in particular the role of gestures of compassion and hospitality. Zubko currently co-chairs the Body and Religion group and serves on the Teaching Religion unit at the American Academy of Religion.