Communication Department Faculty

Kristin Peterson

Associate Professor

Department

Communication

Profile

Kristin Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, teaching courses related to the intersections of media and religion. Her book, Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists (Rutgers University Press, 2022), examines how digital spaces facilitate intersectional feminist activism within Evangelical Christian and Muslim American communities. She has published articles and book chapters on Muslim Instagram influencers, the digital mourning after the murder of three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill, hijab tutorial videos on YouTube, the Ms. Marvel comic series, the Mipsterz art collective, the #ChurchToo and #MosqueMeToo movements, and podcasts as space to address grief.

Peterson is a board member of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture, and member of the Board of Representatives for the Boston Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality

Publications

湗Smarties, you know what up! Curating a Community and Cultivating Pleasure as a Social Justice Influencer, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2024)

淏land Christianity: The Secular Marketing Strategies of Urban Church Plants, Journal of Media and Religion 21, no. 3 (July 2022).

湗The Bad Things are Just Too Close Right Now: Podcasts Cultivate Spaces to Sit with the Messiness of Grief, Mortality (February 2022).

淎esthetic Styles and the Occupation of Space in the 楶laces You檒l Pray Photo Series, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 10, no. 1 (August 2021).

淐ultivating Empathy and Resonance for Muslim Lives through Affective Images of the Chapel Hill Victims. Communication, Culture and Critique 13, no. 4 (December 2020).

淗ybrid Styles, Interstitial Spaces, and the Digital Advocacy of the Salafi Feminist, Critical Studies in Media Communication 37, no. 3 (July 2020).

淭he Unruly, Loud and Intersectional Muslim Woman: Interrupting the Aesthetics Styles of Islamic Fashion Images on Instagram, International Journal of Communication 14 (February 2020).

淧ushing Boundaries and Blurring Categories in Digital Media and Religion Research, Sociology Compass. Invited submission. (January 2020).

淪elling to 楽marties: The Marketing Strategies of a Social Justice Influencer, Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon, edited by Mara Einstein and Sarah McFarland Taylor, forthcoming.

淢ore than a Mask, Burkini and Tights: Fighting Misrepresentations through Ms. Marvel Costume. In Ms. Marvel America: No Normal, edited by Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

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