- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 404-413-6119
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Location
25 Park Place, 1721
Kathryn McClymond
Professor Religious Studies, Chair and Professor Middle East Studies Center, Religious Studies- Education
PhD., Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
MA, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
BA. cum laude, History and Literature, Harvard University
- Specializations
Ritual studies, moral injury, comparative study of religion (specializations in Hinduism, Judaism)
- Biography
McClymond is a comparative scholar of religions, with a particular interest in religion, ritual, and violence. Her current research focuses on moral injury as an experience of military personnel and veterans. Her first book, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice (Georgia Author of the Year Award 2009), argued against prevailing conceptions of sacrifice as a violent, destructive activity. McClymond is also author of Ritual Gone Wrong: Case Studies in Ritual Disruption (in production with Oxford University Press), which examines ritual mistakes, sabotage, and disruption and their significance for ritual theory. McClymond is a recipient of the Distinguished Honors Professor Award (2002) and the Outstanding Teaching Award (2006) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University. She is a steering committee member of the American Academy of Religion Comparative Studies in Religion Section.
