Brent Crosson is an anthropologist of religion and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. His research has focused on contestations over the limits of legal power, science, and religion in the Americas. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, he was an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow at UC Santa Cruz and a Ruth Landes Memorial postdoctoral fellow in cultural anthropology at NYU. His first book–Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad–is published with University of Chicago Press (2020). His research on Caribbean practices of healing and legal intervention–known as obeah, spiritual work, or science–has been published in a number of journals, including Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, The Journal of Africana Religions, Cosmologics, and American Religion. His special issue in the journal Ethnos–“What Possessed You?”–explores the relationship between spirit possession, material possessions, and political sovereignty. His work on race relations and solidarity has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly and the Duke University Press journal Small Axe. His current research focuses on climate change, religion, and conceptions of energy, with chapters on these issues forthcoming in the edited volumes Mediality on Trial, Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, and Critical Approaches to Science and Religion.