Daniel Vaca

Daniel Vaca is the Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, where he teaches in the Department of Religious Studies. A historian of religion and culture in North America, he specializes in the relationship between religious and economic life in the United States. His first book, Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America (2019), traces the history of the evangelical book industry and its audience since the end of the nineteenth century, examining how evangelical ideas and identities have taken shape through commercial strategy and corporate initiative. The co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's program unit on Religion and Economy, Daniel serves on the editorial board of Social Science Research Council's The Immanent Frame.