Stephen Berquist is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Anthropology, holding MA degrees in Earth Sciences and Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Stephen is involved in a range of projects. His dissertation research mobilizes archaeological excavations on the north coast of Peru to interrogate the adequacy of foundational sociological categories such as “religion” and “politics” beyond their relation to the modern secular nation-state, thus re-thinking the organizational forms of which social collectives are capable. He is also involved in ongoing archaeological research at Angkor Thom and in Arequipa and Cusco, Peru, as well as an ethnographic project in Detroit, MI where is assisting Dr. Valentina Napolitano to investigate the use and reuse of Catholic spaces.