Anthony Michael Petro

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1 Anthony Michael Petro Department of Religion Boston University 145 Bay State Road Boston, MA EDUCATION Princeton University Ph.D. in Religion, 2011 Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies M.A. in Religion, 2009 The University of Chicago M.A. in the Social Sciences, 2004 Georgia State University B.A. in Religious Studies, 2003 Minor in Anthropology Summa Cum Laude & Research Honors Princeton, NJ Chicago, IL Atlanta, GA ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Boston University, 2012-present Assistant Professor of Modern Christianity Department of Religion Graduate Division of Religious Studies New York University, Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow Program in Religious Studies Boston, MA New York, NY PUBLICATIONS Monograph After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (under contract with Oxford University Press) Edited Volume Global Perspectives on Religion and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, with Lynne Gerber (in progress) Peer-Reviewed Essays and Book Chapters Protest Religion! AIDS, ACT UP, and the Sexual Politics of Religious Freedom, in Devotions and Desires: Histories of Religion and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century United States, edited by Bethany Moreton, Heath White, and Gillian Frank (under consideration with University of Pennsylvania Press) Beyond Accountability: The Queer Archive of Catholic Sexual Abuse, in Radical History Review, special issue on Queering Archives (accepted for publication) Petro / January

2 Queer Politics and the Limits of Christian Celibacy, in Queer Christianities, edited by Mark Larrimore, Michael Pettinger, and Kathleen Talvacchia (forthcoming with NYU Press) Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, edited by Paul Harvey and Edward Blum (Columbia University Press, 2012): The History of Religions and North American Religion, Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Charles Lippy and Peter Williams, eds. (CQ Press, 2010) (6,000 words). Reference Entries and Reviews Review of North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South, by Stephen J. Inrig, Journal of the History of Sexuality (submitted) Mainline Protestants & Homosexuality, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2008): Domesticity and Spirituality in African American Religious History and Ethnography, Radical History Review 99 (Fall 2007): Popular Writing Koop s Crusade, Slate, February 27, 2013, slate.com. Big Vampire Love: What s So Mormon about Twilight? (with Samira K. Mehta) Religion Dispatches, December 4, 2009, religiondispatches.org. Smelling a Secular Funk: Debating the Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, Religion Dispatches, October 28, 2009, religiondispatches.org. HONORS AND AWARDS Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of American Religion and Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University 2012 LGBT Religious History Award, LGBT Religious Archives Network Graduate Fellow in Religion and Culture, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University ($6,000) Joanne and Noah Cotsen Junior Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate Fellow in Religion and Public Life, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University ($6,000) J. D. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton University 2004 Kenneth W. Payne Prize, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association ($500) University Scholarship, The University of Chicago ($15,000) Petro / January

3 2003 Outstanding Scholar of Georgia State University 2003 Outstanding Student in Religious Studies Award, Georgia State University Presidential Honors Scholarship, Georgia State University (tuition and living stipend for four years) PRESENTATIONS 2014 Panelist, Religion, Health, and the Body in North America, Department of Religion at Western Michigan University, May Invited Panelist, Queer Life after DOMA, Yale University, 4/ Invited Lecture, ACT UP, AIDS, and American Religion, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, 4/ Public/Private, Sexual Binaries/Religious Histories: A Roundtable Discussion, American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD 2013 Invited Lecture, Affecting Performances: The Media and Body Politics of Contemporary Christianity: A Conversation with Jill Stevenson and Anthony Petro, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University, 11/ Invited Lecture, Beyond the Culture Wars? American Evangelicals Today, Evergreen Program, Boston University, 10/ Beyond Accountability: The Queer Archive of Catholic Sexual Abuse, Religion in the Americas Workshop, Princeton University, 10/ Panelist, Roundtable on Seeking the Straight and Narrow, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 3/ Invited Panelist, AIDS, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church, Panelist for Catholic Vocations in a Time of Change, Boston University School of Theology, 3/ Presider, Religion and Sexuality Panel, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, Illinois 2012 Invited Lecture, AIDS, Sexuality, and the American Church in the 1980s, OutLook, Marsh Chapel, Boston University, 11/ American Evangelical Sentiment and the Bio-politics of AIDS, Social Science and Religion Network, Boston University, 9/ Invited Lecture, ACT UP and American Religion, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, CA Petro / January

4 2012 Keynote Speaker, The Contemporary Evangelical Landscape in New York and the U.S. Anti-Defamation League, New York, NY 2012 American Christians and the Politics of AIDS, Conference on Religion, Social Movements, and Zones of Crisis, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University 2012 Contemporary Christians and Celibate Desire, Queer Christianities Conference, The New School, New York, NY 2011 After the Wrath of God: American Christian Sentiment and the Bio-Politics of AIDS, American Religion in the Age of AIDS, American Academy of Religion, San Francisco 2011 Invited Lecture, ACT UP, Religious Freedom, and the Ethics of Sex, LGBTQ Student Center Speaker Series, New York University 2011 Invited Panelist, Religious Liberty and the American Creed, Institute on U.S. Culture & Society: The Reconciliation of American Diversity with National Unity, Multinational Institute of American Studies, New York University 2011 Invited Panelist, Beyond Religion Lived and Represented, Talking about Religion: Contested Meanings, Manhattan Marymount University, New York, NY 2011 Invited Respondent for Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God, Does God Exist? New York University 2011 Reforming Sex: C. Everett Koop and the Moral Politics of Public Health, Center for Religion and Media, New York University 2011 Reforming Sex: C. Everett Koop and the Moral Politics of Public Health, American Religions Colloquium, Yale University 2011 Reforming Sex: C. Everett Koop and the Moral Politics of Public Health, American Society of Church History Winter Meeting, Boston 2010 Respondent for Technologies of Governance panel with Bethany Morton and Winifred Sullivan, States of Devotion: Religion, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Body in the Americas, New York University 2010 AIDS, American Religion, and the Bio-Politics of Pastoral Care, Conference on the Politics of Religion, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY 2010 Reforming Sex: C. Everett Koop, Sex Education, and the Moral Politics of Public Health, Women and Gender Studies Colloquium, Princeton University 2009 Writing Barbin: Religion, Feminist Theory, and the Body, Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Section, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta Petro / January

5 2009 Respondent for The Complex as Mediation, The Complex: Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University Program in American Studies 2009 Reading Barbin: Autobiography, Religion, and the Body, Radical Intersections: Performance across Disciplines, Northwestern University 2009 After the Wrath of God: The History of Christian AIDS Activism, American Society of Church History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Joint Session), New York City 2008 Respondent for Kathryn Lofton, Queering Fundamentalism, Colloquium in American Religious History, Princeton University 2005 Reconciling Agency: Gay and Lesbian Activism at a Chicago Methodist Church, Religion and Sexuality Consultation, Princeton University 2005 Reconciling Agency: The Politics of Hate Speech and Memory at a Chicago Methodist Church, Religion, Ethics, and Society Section, Southeastern Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Wake Forest ACADEMIC PROJECTS & CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 2014 Invited Participant, Managing Religious Diversity in the Neoliberal Americas, Encuentro, NYU Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Montreal, Canada, June present Member, Faculty Gender and Sexuality Studies Group, Boston University Co-chair, Global Perspectives on Religion and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Five- Year Seminar Unit, American Academy of Religion 2011 Co-organizer (with Lynne Gerber), American Religion in the Age of AIDS, American Academy of Religion, jointly sponsored by five units: North American Religions; Religion & Sexuality; Queer Studies in Religion; Arts, Literature, & Religion; and Religions, Social Conflict, & Peace, San Francisco 2011 Participant, Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Kathryn Lofton and Robert Orsi, directors Participant, Bio/Geo-Politics of Religion Seminar, Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, New York, NY; Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch, directors 2009 Participant, Emerging Scholars of Religion and Public Life Workshop, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, New York, NY; Craig Calhoun and David Kyuman Kim, directors 2009 Participant, Religion and Sexuality Initiative, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Mark Jordan, director Petro / January

6 2005 Participant, Religion and Sexuality Consultation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; R. Marie Griffith, director TEACHING EXPERIENCE Boston University American Evangelicalism* Christianity Humanities Approaches to Religion *Developed new course for College of Arts and Sciences New York University American Evangelicalism Religion in America since the Civil War Identity and Desire in American Religion Religion, Health, and Medicine* Multireligious America Global Christianity (Directed Reading) Religion, Health, and Medicine Experience in American Religion Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts American Religion in the Age of AIDS Princeton University Religion in Modern Thought and Film (preceptor for Professor Jeffrey Stout) Introduction to the Study of Gender (preceptor for Professor Gayle Salamon) Graduate Thesis Advisement Advisor, Other Skins: Intersections of Sexuality, Religion and Citizenship in Allen Drury s Advise and Consent and Tony Kushner s Angels in America, MA Thesis, NYU Draper Program, 2013 Advisor, Beyond the Written Word: Historiography and the Politics of American Religious Liberalism, MA Thesis, NYU Religious Studies Program, 2011 Advisor, End Times: The Impossibility of the Religious Right in a Nation of Independent Voters and Religious Apostates, MA Thesis, NYU Religious Studies Program, 2011 Advisor, Doing God's Dirty Work: Faith-Based Outreach, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Notion of Religious Freedom, Honor s Thesis, NYU Religious Studies Program, 2010 Honors Thesis Advisement Advisor (Abigail Clauhs) Doctoral Examination Committees We Are Comrades! Tongzhi (Comrade) Theology and its Contribution to Christian Theologies of God in the New Millennium, Doctoral Thesis of Boon Lin Ngeo, BU School of Theology, 4/3/2013 Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Global Mission of Walter and Ingrid Trobisch, Doctoral Thesis of Anneke Stasson, BU DRTS, 4/11/2013 ADMINISTRATIVE & ACADEMIC SERVICE 2014 Humanities Curriculum Committee, Boston University 2013 Constructing Writing Assignments, Presentation for the Teaching Fellows Seminar, Boston University (organized by Professor Diana Lobel), 10/ Guest Speaker, WS801: Theories and Methods in Women s, Gender and Sexuality Petro / January

7 Studies (taught by Professor Erin Murphy), 10/ Panelist, Focusing on Future Faculty Symposium, Boston University, 3/ present Graduate Career Development Mentor, Division of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston University 2012 How To Write a Syllabus, Presentation for the Teaching Fellows Seminar, Boston University (organized by Professor Diana Lobel), 10/ Co-organizer, Gender Studies in Religion Seminar Series, Princeton University Graduate Student Editor, Princeton Report on Knowledge, Program Associate (full-time position), Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory University School of Law REVIEWER Manuscripts/Proposals Oxford University Press Fordham University Press Routledge Journal Articles Journal of Homosexuality Journal of Social History Practical Matters Women s Studies Quarterly Theology & Sexuality SELECTED MEDIA WORK Interviewed for Boston Globe, How Richard Emmanuel became reverend of a church with a mission but no members, by Joseph P. Kahn, January 2, 2013 Interviewed for CBS Evening News Weekend Edition, The Elevation of the Cardinals and the State of the Catholic Church, February 18, 2012 Interviewed for Discovery News, Religious Affiliations: On the Outs? by Marianne English, March 28, 2011 LANGUAGE SKILLS Spanish (reading and writing) French (reading) SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS American Academy of Religion American Studies Association American Society of Church History American Historical Association Petro / January