Samira Mehta
Title: Diversity Dissertation Fellow and Humanities Scholar-in-Residence
Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Degrees: B.A., Swarthmore College; M.Div., Harvard University; Ph.D. candidate, Emory University
Contact Info
Email: smehta@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814)-332-3205; building secretary: (814) 332-4343
Office Info
Office Location: 400 N. Main (Oddfellows), Room 109 (north wing, ground floor)
Office Hours: TBA
Ms. Mehta’s forthcoming dissertation, “Beyond Chrismukkah: A Cultural History of the Christian/Jewish Blended Family 1965-2010″, addresses both cultural conversations around Christian/Jewish marriage and family in the United States and the experiences and ritual practices of those families themselves.
Ms. Mehta has held fellowships from the Sloan Foundation’s Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life at Emory University and from the Jacob Radar Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. She has served as associate and later managing editor for the online journal Practical Matters, of which she is a founding staff member.
Her writing has appeared in
- The Encyclopedia of Religion in America
- The Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History
- Practical Matters
- ARC, the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
- Religion Dispatches
- Religion in American History blog
Ms. Mehta will be teaching a course in Religious Studies in Spring 2012.
