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Emily D. Crews
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Executive Director Marty Center at UChiDivinity. Historian of religions in US/Africa. Relig + gender, reproductive politics, art, abolition. She/her/hers
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*Me, reading @marshallcunningham.bsky.social 's 2024 VT article while writing a thing on Jeremiah* oh thank god Marshall did the reading
August 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Someone’s #realacademicbio.
April 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Is this exhibit the best part of working at The Marty Center? Possibly. Maybe. Probably. Yes!
“Domestic Devotion” is now live at The Martin Marty center! Such a privilege to do this with @emilydcrews.bsky.social @tiffannett.bsky.social & Majid Nolley. Coming soon: the cross wall and other hangings! #secondhandsacred
April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reading @ahmadgreene.com & Laura Helton this week in our Sacred Geographies course! We’ll focus on archives and collecting as forms of making/claiming/narrating/critiquing/embodying “the sacred.” Next week we visit Chi History Museum to engage archives & collections (& exhibits!) in person.
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just read a syllabus for a course on the sociology of reproduction in the US and there’s nothing about religion. Not one single reading in a semester length class that looks at “the social construction of reproductive values.” I find this astounding and yet also…not.
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Please consider joining our conversation about the state of Catholic Studies. Super hosts and panelists! Meeting this afternoon. Sponsored by @csraac.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Goodbye, beautiful objects! We miss you! (Especially the Oral Roberts wallet. And the Last Supper lunchbox. And the King James Version belt buckle. And…)
Fresh from its Fall run at the Martin Marty Center, the Secondhand Sacred exhibit "Wearing & Carrying" has a new home. Now on display at the C.H. Booth Library (Newtown, CT) through the end of March. @emilydcrews.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...
How to Protect Your Reproductive Health During Trump’s Second Presidency
Our comprehensive guide for protecting your access to birth control, medication abortion, and emergency contraception before Donald Trump takes office.
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January 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Just hit send on a final manuscript six years in the making. If you see me walking around delirious from the lack of weight on my shoulders just give me some electrolytes and turn me toward home.

PS Just realized I never posted the cover.
January 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
5yo: describes in detail a fairly mundane dream about legos. Then, an afterthought: “And there were gecko horses.” 😂
December 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Can’t wait to read!
December 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
83% of parenting is scouring the floor for microscopic legos without which one’s child will perish.
December 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM
👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
So how does this starter pack thing work? Can’t I just import my mutuals from the Bad Place? 😫
December 6, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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It's important to remember that the "crisis in the humanities" is deliberate and not because of a lack of funds or lack of student interest, but because of how those with power choose to wield their power.
Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
We’ll be reading Meehan Crist’s “Is It Okay to Have a Child?” and hosting Kate Hoeting from @catholic4choice.bsky.social. A powerful way to say goodbye to wonderful students!!
Today is the last day of Religion and Abortion in American Culture and I’m feeling emotional about it! I’m going to miss the amazing students who made the class so good—and who welcomed me back into the classroom after two years away. Teaching is the best.
December 3, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Today is the last day of Religion and Abortion in American Culture and I’m feeling emotional about it! I’m going to miss the amazing students who made the class so good—and who welcomed me back into the classroom after two years away. Teaching is the best.
December 3, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Join the virtual, pre-conference meeting on 11/16!

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Meet the Editors of NAASR affiliated publications (Merinda Simmons, Leslie Smith, @emilydcrews.bsky.social Mitsutoshi Horii and Tisa Wenger) for a roundtable: The Place of NAASR Publications in the Field
August 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM