Kate Holbrook : Curriculum Vitae

Presentations

  • “Purity, Commensality, Social Class, and Grace: The Religious Significance of Food.” Keynote address, Food and Faith: Third Annual Religions in Conversation Conference. Claremont School of Theology.  November 14, 2009  
  • “Culinary Ideology in the Nation of Islam.”  American Academy of Religion.  Nov. 7-10, 2009.  
  • “Back to Any Land: The Religious Roots of Agrarianism.”  Food, Farms, and Community Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College.  June 16-18, 2009. 
  • “Women with a Bishopric.”  Mormonism Through the Eyes of Women: Envisioning New Spaces for Theology and Practice.  Claremont Graduate University.  March 27, 2009. 
  • “Food Safe: Domestic Science, the Word of Wisdom, and Leah Widtsoe’s Campaign to Save Souls Through Proper Nutrition.”  Mormon History Association Annual Conference.  May 21-24, 2009.  
  • “Mormonist Feminism: An Apologia” at Harvard Divinity School.  Faith and Knowledge: Latter-day Saints in Religious Studies Conference.  February 20-21, 2009. 
  • “The Woman in the Kitchen.”  Keynote address, Exponent II Annual Retreat.  September 26-28, 2008. 
  • “The Moral Valence of Diet: Thinking Through Our Bodies and Their Food.”  Workshop, Exponent II Annual Retreat.  September 26-28, 2008. 
  • “Discussing Global Values.”  Indigo Sowon Humanities Week October 6-8, 2007. Busan, Korea.  
  • “Dining Through Exile: Communal Meals in an Alternative Homeland.”  American Studies Association.  Oct. 12-15, 2006. 
  • “Sikh Langar in Salt Lake City: The Meaning of a Meal.”  Workshop, Exponent II Annual Retreat.  September 8-10, 2006.  
  • “Divining Buffy: A Post-religious Theology of the Vampire Slayer.” Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference.  November 8-9, 2002. Nominated for NEPCA prize. 
  • “A Pedagogy of Biography: Reformer Narratives And Student Engagement.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November 20-24, 2002. 
  • “Mapping the Religious Landscape of Salt Lake City.”  Pluralism Project Conference, Harvard College.  October 23, 2001. 
  • “The Hidden Language of Film.”  Personal Choice and Global Transformation. Harvard College. October 2, 2001.

Publications

 

  • “Women with a Bishopric.” Element. Forthcoming (pink issue) 
  • “The Beings I Love Are Creatures.”  Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought.  Spring 2009. 
  • Global Values 101.  Edited by Kate Holbrook, Ann Kim, Brian Palmer, and Anna Portnoy.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.    
  • “Conflicts that Fortify: The Landscape of My Spiritual Home.” My Red Couch: And Other Stories on Seeking a Feminist Faith.  Claire Bischoff and Rachel Gaffron, eds.  Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005. 
  • “Europe in Black and White: The Prevalence of Xenophobia in Modern Europe.” Co-authored with Brian Palmer.  Ewert, Brianna M. (Ed.). Let’s Go: Western Europe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.  
  • “Religious Hunting Rituals.” Salamone, F. (Ed.). (2003). Encyclopedia of Religious Rituals (1st ed.). New York: Berkshire/Routledge.
  • “Latter-day Saints and Justice for Workers.” Additional research provided by John-Charles Duffy and James Tobler.  Pamphlet published by National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, 2002.