Interdisciplinary Studies

Cristina Rosetti holds a PhD in Religious Studies from University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the history and lived experience of fundametnalist Mormons in the intermountain West. She is currently writing the biography of Saint Joseph White Musser, under contract with University of Illinois Press.

Mees Tielens has a BA and MA in American Studies from Radboud University in the Netherlands. He received his PhD from the Ruhrcenter of American Studies in Dortmund, Germany in 2018. His current projects include work on queering the Mormon body as well as feminist theologies around childbirth and motherhood. Mees is pursuing ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church and will begin an MDiv at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley this fall.

Joseph Stuart is a Ph.D Candidate in History and Chair of the Rocky Mountain American Religion Seminar at the University of Utah. His doctoral work examines the relationship of race, masculinity, and religion in twentieth-century African American history. His work has been published in American Quarterly, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, Religion & Politics, and the Journal of Mormon History.