Adjunct Faculty, Ph.D., Emory University
Eastern and Western Philosophy and Religion,
Alaska Native Studies, Women in Religion
Kristin Helweg Hanson has mastered the “interdisciplinary background.” She has degrees and experience in nursing, education, and religious studies. However, her key credentials are a Certificate of Women’s Studies and a Ph.D. in religion, both from Emory University.
Kristin is intrigued by “lived religion” or the study of how religious systems find expression and change within particular lives, times, and places. She uses feminist ethnography to probe “lived” phenomena such as how Inupiaq cultural understandings transform Protestant practices and theology. Her interests also encompass: women in religion; religion and education; comparative theology; and Alaska female missionary history. Thus her recent papers and presentations have been on topics such as: ethnographic ethics; debunking myths regarding Islam; religious roots of Western public education; and the tergiversating nature of “ordinary” religion. One of Kristin’s greatest passions is teaching and her favorite forum is the undergraduate classroom.
Recent Publications:
Kristin Helweg Hanson (2006). “Looking In, Looking Out: A Christian Historical Perspective” in
Rukhsana Zia (ed), Globalization, Modernization and Education in
Muslim Countries. In Bryan T. Peck (series editor)
Education: Emerging Goals in the New Millennium, New York Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: 85-97.
Email: AFKAH@uaa.alaska.edu; Phone: 907.786.4438
