Religious Studies

Amanda Baugh, Ph.D.

Amanda Baugh
Associate Professor
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(818) 677-4733
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Santa Susanna Hall 227
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Biography

Amanda Baugh specializes in the study of climate change, the environment and American religion, with attention to questions of race, ethnicity, and class. She earned her Ph.D. in American Religions from Northwestern University (2012).

Baugh’s first book, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White (University of California Press, 2016), examines how assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class have shaped the “greening” of American religion. Her current research project, Rethinking Religious Environmentalism, tells the story of American religious environmentalism from the perspective of Latinx Catholics. Baugh is a National Research Fellow, and a Young Scholar of American Religion, with the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI. She is a 2020 recipient of a Faculty Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Baugh’s teaching interests include the study of religion, the environment, religion and American culture, and religious studies theory. She serves as the academic advisor for CSUN students majoring and minoring in Religious Studies.

Recent Publications

God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White (University of California Press, 2016)

 “Nepantla Environmentalism: Challenging Dominant Frameworks in Green Religion.” (forthcoming in Journal of the American Academy of Religion).

“Confronting Racism and White Privilege in Courses on Religion and the Environment: An Inclusive Pedagogical Approach.” Teaching Theology and Religion. 22.4 (2019).

“Explicit and Embedded Environmentalism: Challenging Normativities in the Greening of Religion.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. 23.2 (2019) (93-112).

“Interfaith Environmentalism and Uneven Opportunities to Flourish.” That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics. Ed. Laura M. Hartman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 239-252. 

“‘Green is Where it’s At!’: Food and Environmentalism at an African American Church.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. 9.3 (2015) 335-363.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Academy of Religion
  • Secretary, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
  • Steering Committee Member, Religion and Social Sciences Group of the American Academy of Religion

Select Fellowships, Affiliations, and Awards

  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
  • National Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
  • Young Scholars in American Religion Program. Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, “Extending the Land Ethic”
  • CSUN Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award
  • CSUN College of Humanities Research Fellowship
  • ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Professional Memberships

  • American Academy of Religion
  • International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture