Associate Professor of Religious Studies and chair
Ph.D. Yale University, M.Phil/M.A. Yale University, M.A. New York University, B.B.A. Washburn University
Kati Curts (she/her) is a historian of religion and secularism, focusing on capitalism and popular culture in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. She is the author of Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America (New York University Press, 2025).
Her current research examines modern religious visionaries, divination practices, extractive industry, and genres of storying the past through Hollywood film, Cold War- era opera, frontier folklore, and the museums and archival collections of regional historical societies in the southern and western United States.
At Sewanee, Curts teaches courses on religion in American history, technology, entertainment, new religious movements, gender and sexuality, secularism, law, and business, and method and theory in the study of religion.
