Michael David McNally

Michael D. McNally is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College (Minnesota). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017-18 for the writing of DEFEND THE SACRED: NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BEYOND THE FIRST AMENDMENT (2020), for which he was also awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to gain targeted training in law. An historian of religion in America, McNally received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Study of Religion in 1996, though many of his most important teachers have been Anishinaabe elders from White Earth and Leech Lake. His first book, OJIBWE SINGERS (2000) was recognized with the Great Lakes Book Award and was issued in paperback in 2009. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship for his second book, HONORING ELDERS (2009).