• Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University

Dr. Richard J. Callahan, Jr., is interested in the intersections of religion, cultures of work, natural resource extraction, and comparative studies of religions and globalization. He received his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MA in Folklore and Folklife Studies at Western Kentucky University. Dr. Callahan is the author of Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust, and editor of New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase and The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture. His latest research explores a religious history of the nineteenth-century American whaling industry and its global networks of exchange in the spaces of the ocean. Dr. Callahan's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Indiana University's Center for Religion and the Human, Yale University's Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology, the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University Indianapolis, the Missouri Humanities Council, the University of Missouri, and Gonzaga University's Digital Humanities Initiative.

• –present Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University

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