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Hannah Dick

Associate Professor

    Email:hannah.dick@carleton.ca
    Building:Richcraft Hall
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    Degrees:B.A. (Hons) M.A. in Religion and Modernity, Queen鈥檚 University; Ph.D. in Communication, University of California San Diego

    Biography

    Biography听

    My work brings together communication and media studies with the study of religion. I hold a PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and an MA in Religion and Modernity from Queen鈥檚 University. Prior to joining 杏吧原创 I worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU), in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.听

    Research Interests

    My research focuses on how religion mediates and is mediated by political, legal, and cultural discourses. My SSHRC-funded research project on the discourse of Christian persecution explores the ways that conservative Christian political and legal advocacy groups in the U.S. have employed the language of victimization in order to carve out ever-greater spaces of exemption from antidiscrimination law. More recently I have been looking at the overlap between religion and conspiracy theories in both the U.S. and Canada. My work is informed by intersectional feminist theory and critical cultural studies.听

    I teach courses in media and religion, political communication, and media theory. I am available to supervise students working on the following topics/areas:听听

    • religion听
    • political communication听
    • the public sphere听
    • the cultural politics of popular representations听
    • communication and media theory听

    Publications

    鈥淎mericanized Discourses of Religious Freedom and Christian Persecution During the 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy鈥� Studies in Religion 54.1 (2025): 32-46.听听

    鈥溞影稍� Face: Hypocrites and Outliers in Canadian News Coverage of Masking and Anti-Masking During the Coronavirus Pandemic鈥� TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 46.1 (2023): 329-352.听听

    鈥淭he Invisible Center: Christian Liberalism in American Religious Freedom Jurisprudence鈥� Law, Culture, and the Humanities 19.1 (2023): 144-166.听听

    鈥淎dvocating for the Right: Alliance Defending Freedom and the Christian Persecution Complex鈥� Feminist Legal Studies 29.3 (2021): 375-397.听

    鈥淔raming Faith During the 2016 Election: Journalistic Coverage of the Trump Campaign and the Myth of Evangelical Schism鈥� in鈥�, Ed. Andrew Moore, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press: 2021.听

    鈥�Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the Media: Popular Depictions of a Religious Minority鈥� Journal of Popular Culture 52.1 (2019): 75-97.听

    鈥淣ot Without Precedent: Populist White Evangelical Support for Trump鈥濃��Berkeley Journal of Sociology鈥�鈥�9 May 2017听

    Commentary

    The Conversation Apr 7, 2019

    The Conversation Oct 4, 2018