Emily Suzanne Clark

Emily Suzanne Clark is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.

Her award-winning first book, *A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans* (UNC Press, 2016), explores the religious and racial politics of talking to the dead (2017 Francis B. Simkins Award, 2017 Michael Thomason Book Award, and 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title). With Brad Stoddard, she is the co-editor of *Race and New Religious Movements in the USA: A Documentary Reader* (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).