Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Religious Studies from Missouri State University. She earned an M.Phil and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University, where she also obtained an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Culture and Media (ethnographic filmmaking and theory). Her first book is Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Fordham Press).
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Education
Ph.D, Sociocultural Anthropology, New York University
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Contact
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Address
Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue,
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Associations
Introduction to Religious Studies
PHIL 1110
Examines the methods, disciplines, and theories employed in the academic study of religion. Focuses on major theories of religion employed in the discipline of religious studies, including historical, psychological, anthropological, and sociological approaches. Introduces students to the primary methods of research in the academic study of religion
