Meet Our Conveners
Jeanne H. Kilde
Director, Religious Studies Program
Jeanne Kilde, a cultural historian of religion in the United States, holds a Ph.D. in American Studies. Her research focuses primarily on religious architecture and space although she has also written on the history of religion and higher education in America in Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College (University of Minnesota Press 2010). Kilde directs the Religious Studies Program and serves as its Director of Undergraduate Studies as well. She teaches courses on theory and method in the study of religion and on the intersections between gender and religion.
Our Collaborators
Professor, Rhetoric
Assistant Professor, Individualized and Interdisciplinary Study
UMN-Duluth
Metropolitan State University
Professor, Sociology
Associate Professor, History
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems
UMN-TC
UMN-TC
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Associate Professor, History
Professor, Communication
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Religious Studies
UMN-TC
UMN-Duluth
UMN-TC
Educational Technologies Consultant
Professor, Religion
Associate Professor, History of Science; IAS Director
UMN-TC
UT Knoxville
UMN-TC
Executive Director
Graduate Student, Sociology
Associate Director of University Engagement
Wilberforce Academy
UMN-TC
Anselm House
Librarian
Director, Office of Conflict Resolution
Managing Director, IAS
UMN-TC
UMN-TC
UMN-TC
Professor, Writing Program
Adjunct faculty member, Institute for Global Studies
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
UMN-Duluth
UMN-TC
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Our Partners and Funders
The IAS provided generous funding for RPUC in 2019-20 along with following funding in 2020-21. Staff members Brianna Menning and Abby Travis have helped with innumerable tasks, and IAS managing director Susannah Smith is a regular member of the collaborative.
The Religious Studies Program has provided staff support and additional funding.
The Office for Equity and Diversity and its Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy (IDEA) provided the 2020-21 grant award for the “Religious Diversity on the UMN Campus: Connecting Student Insights and Advancing Faculty Conversations: initiative of the RPUC.
The Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (DASH) program supports faculty and students looking to employ digital methodologies and technologies in their teaching, research, and creative work, and provides support for RPUC’s website.
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