DR. MARC ROSCOE LOUSTAU 44 Winslow Road, #6 Brookline, MA (857)

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1 DR. MARC ROSCOE LOUSTAU 44 Winslow Road, #6 Brookline, MA (857) EDUCATION Harvard University, The Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Th.D. in Religion and Society, 2015 M.Div. in Religion and Society, 2006 Reed College, Portland, OR B.A. in Social Anthropology, 2000 DISSERTATION Devotions of Desire: Changing People, Changing Gods at a Transylvanian Pilgrimage Site Advisor: Professor Michael D. Jackson PUBLICATIONS Risking a Miracle: Transcendentally-Oriented Improvisation and Catholic Charismatics Involvement in a Transylvanian Canonization Special Issue of The Journal of Contemporary Religion: Ritual, Risk and Efficacy: Collocating Ritual Studies and the Anthropology of Christianity. (Accepted for publication) Heritage Possessed: Catholic Charismatics Envision Church and State at a Transylvanian Pilgrimage Site Special Issue of Ethnos: What Possessed You: Sovereignties, Selves, and Spirits. (Article Abstract Accepted, Submission for Peer Review, October 2015) Where is the Religious Healing We Are Looking For? Cosmologics: A Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. June 2014 Review of Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices, Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds.). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 20(3): 2012 ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS, AND APPOINTMENTS Panel on Theological Education, Dissertation Finishing Grant, February 2013 American Council of Learned Societies, East European Language Training Grant, May 2011 Harvard University, Frederick Knox Traveling Fellowship, May 2009 Harvard Divinity School, John L. Loeb Fellowship, May 2009 Harvard Divinity School, Edward Hopkins Shareholder, May 2005

2 Loustau CV - 2 Harvard Divinity School, Summer Research Grant, May 2005 The Community Church of New York, John Haynes Holmes Memorial Fellowship, June 2004 Harvard Divinity School, F. Forrester Church Scholarship, September 2003 The Fund for Theological Education, Congregational Fellow, September 2003 INVITED LECTURES AND PEER REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS Good-Enough Guests and Hosts: A Phenomenology of Primary Hospitality Conference Paper, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2015 Embodied Perception as a Model for Everyday Boundary Negotiations at the Csíksomlyó Pilgrimage Site Conference Paper, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015 Morality, the Virgin Mary, and Memories of Getting By in Romania. Conference Paper and Panel Co-Organizer, Intersubjectivity, Dynamism, and Negotiation: Existential and Phenomenological Approaches to Ritualization, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, San Diego, CA, April 2015 Intimate Atheism: Family Life, Temporality, and Secularization at a Transylvanian Pilgrimage Site Conference Paper, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2014 Can the Virgin Mary Make an Unruly Coalition: Using Catholic Visionary Politics to Explore Post-Socialist Sovereignties Conference Paper, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2014 St. Grass and the Intimacy of the Missing T-Shirts: How Does a Transylvanian Environmental NGO Decide What Kind of Religion Belongs to Local Heritage? Conference Paper, Heritage and Healthy Societies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, May 2014 Renewal Movements and Clerical Authority in Post-Conciliar Transylvanian Roman Catholicism Conference Paper, The Lived History of Vatican II, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 2014 Struggling Towards Moral Selfhood: Conversational Analysis of Post-Socialist Miracle Narratives Conference Paper, The Topos of Justice: 13 th Annual International Young Researchers Conference, The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH, March 2014

3 Loustau CV - 3 The Mother of God and the Language of Thieves: Abortion, Marian Devotionalism, and the Morality of the Black Market in Romania Conference Paper, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2012 The Mother of God and the Language of Thieves: Abortion, Reproductive Politics, and Marian Devotionalism at the Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Site of Șumuleu Ciuc, Romania Conference Paper, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2012 Tanuságot téve, fájdalmat viselve: Szűz Mária közbenjárásához kapcsolódó történetek a csíksomlyói búcsújáróhelyről (Bearing Witness, Bearing Pain: Stories of Marian Intercessory Help from the Șumuleu Ciuc Pilgrimage Center) Invited lecture presented at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, October 2011 OTHER LECTURES AND RESEARCH The Virgin Mary and the Crisis of Roman Catholic Masculinities Panel Presentation, Comparative Masculinities Workshop, Gender Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, April 2013 Mary and the Medium of Devotion: How Roman Catholics Use Objects to Materialize Divinity Departmental Colloquium Presentation, Sociology and Social Anthropology Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 2013 The Making and Un-Making of a Miracle in a Roman Catholic Canonization Procedure University Seminar, Applied Anthropology and Anthropology and Education Departments, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 2013 The Making and Un-Making of a Miracle: Intesubjectivity, Gender, and the Politics of the Miraculous at the Csíksomlyó Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Site, Harghita County, Romania Conference Paper, Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2012 Same-Sex Marriage and the Democratic Process in Congregations: An Ethnographic Investigation into the Lived Experience of Deliberation Harvard Divinity School Master s Thesis, May 2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Contemporary Global Catholicism (Spring 2016) Tutor, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

4 Loustau CV - 4 Ethnographies of Religion: Writing Relationships (Spring 2015) Teaching Fellow, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Philosophical Reinvention of Christianity, with Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger and David Lamberth (Spring 2015) Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, with Professor Charles Hallisey (Fall 2014) The Politics of Storytelling, with Professor Michael D. Jackson (Fall 2013) Marx and His Readers: A Graduate Seminar, with Professor Steven Jungkeit (Fall 2012) From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, From the Old Testament to Christianity, with Professor Shaye Cohen (Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015). Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest, with Professors William Graham and Stephanie Paulsell (Spring 2012) Bodies in Urban Spaces, with Professor Steven Jungkeit (Spring 2012) Introduction to the Histories, Theologies, and Practices of Christianity, with Professor Francis Schussler Fiorenza (Fall 2008) OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Editor, Journal of Global Catholicism, September 2015 Present Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Department of Social Anthropology, January 2013 June 2013 University of Transylvania, Braşov, Romania Romanian Language Certificate, 2011 University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Hungarian Language Certificate, 2009 Research Assistant to Rev. Dr. Forrest Church, New York, NY, January 2003 September 2008 Researched and edited historical non-fiction: Freedom From Fear (St. Martin s Press, 2004) The Separation of Church and State (Beacon Press, 2004) So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State (Harcourt, 2007)

5 Loustau CV - 5 Research Assistant, Transylvania Archives Project, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2005 September 2005 Trained in archival and preservation sciences Catalogued inter-war period correspondence between government agencies and religious leaders in the United Kingdom, United States, and Romania Assisted in collecting historical documents and artifacts from local schools and churches Electronic Communications Assistant, Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action, August 2000 July 2003 Analyzed quantitative research data on voting rights legislation Contributed to design and implementation of on-line and World Wide Web strategies Developed strong relationships with print and on-line media outlets SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY English Language Instructor, Kalot Foundation (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania), April 2009 June 2010 Member, Search Committee, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Chair of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, September 2006 April 2008 Member, Master of Divinity Curriculum Student Review Board, Harvard Divinity School, September 2004 May Reviewed and commented on proposed changes to the Master of Divinity curriculum Member, General Assembly Planning Committee, Unitarian Universalist Association, September 1998 August 2005 (Secretary, September 2000 September 2001; Vice-Chair, September ). Supervised and administered annual business meeting with 5,000 participants Chair, Symposium Organizing Committee, Social Anthropology and Multiculturalism in Academia, Reed College, April 1998 September Selected speakers for social anthropology lecture series on the intellectual foundations of multiculturalism LANGUAGES Beyond advanced level spoken and written Hungarian Medium proficiency in spoken and written Romanian Reading proficiency in French REFERENCES Michael D. Jackson (Dissertation Advisor) Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions Harvard Divinity School 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

6 Loustau CV - 6 (617) mjackson@hds.harvard.edu Michael Herzfeld (Dissertation Committee Member) Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Tozzer Anthropology Building Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA (617) herzfeld@fas.harvard.edu Robert A. Orsi (Dissertation Committee Member) Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies Northwestern University Crowe Hall, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanstron, IL (847) r-orsi@northwestern.edu Krisztina Fehérváry (Dissertation Committee Member) Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan 234-B West Hall 1085 S. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI (734) fehervar@umich.edu