Prof. Dr. Pamela Klassen, religious studies scholar and cultural historian, Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion, cross-appointed to Anthropology, at the University of Toronto, where she is also Vice-Dean, Undergraduate & International in the Faculty of Arts & Science. Her research areas are anthropology and history of Christianity and colonialism in North America, religion in the public sphere, and religion, law, media, and gender. In 2012 she was given the Award of Excellence in Analytical-Descriptive Studies by the American Academy of Religion for her book, Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). In 2004/05 she was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen and returned in 2010-11 as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology in Tübingen. In 2015, Pamela Klassen was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2018, she published two books with the University of Chicago Press, The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State (with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Paul Christopher Johnson).