{"id":1510,"date":"2021-02-03T05:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=1510"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:06:21","slug":"brent-crosson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/brent-crosson\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Crosson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614373527285.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1628\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614373527285-189x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent Crosson<\/strong> 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<em>&#8211;Experiments with Power:\u00a0 Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad<\/em>&#8211;is published with University of Chicago Press (2020).\u00a0 His research on Caribbean practices of healing and legal intervention&#8211;known as obeah, spiritual work, or science&#8211;has been published in a number of journals, including\u00a0<em>Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,\u00a0The Journal of Africana Religions, Cosmologics,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>American Religion.<\/em>\u00a0His special issue in the journal\u00a0<em>Ethnos&#8211;&#8220;What Possessed You?&#8221;&#8211;<\/em>explores the relationship between spirit possession, material possessions, and political sovereignty.\u00a0 His work on race relations and solidarity has appeared in\u00a0<em>Anthropological Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>and the Duke University Press journal\u00a0<em>Small Axe.\u00a0<\/em>His current research focuses on climate change, religion, and conceptions of energy, with chapters on these issues forthcoming in the edited volumes\u00a0<em>Mediality on Trial<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Climate Politics and the Power of Religion,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Critical Approaches to Science and Religion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1510","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}