Dr. Jennifer Graber

Biography

Jennifer Graber works on religion, violence, inter-religious encounters, American prisons, and the American frontier. She teaches undergraduate classes on the history of religion in the United States, religion in the American West, Native American religions, and religious freedom. Additionally, she teaches graduate seminars on topics including religion and violence, religion and empire, and approaches to the study of religion in the U.S. Graber is an affiliated faculty member of the University of Texas's program in Native American and Indigenous Studies and serves as an undergraduate advisor for the Native American and Indigenous Studies certificate program. Her book, 'The Furnace Affliction: Prisons, Religion, and Antebellum America,' explores the intersection of church and state in the founding of the nation's prisons. Her latest book, 'The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle in the American West,' published by Oxford University Press in spring 2018, considers the religious transformations among the Kiowa Indians and Anglo Americans amidst the conflict in Indian Territory, known today as Oklahoma.

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