Aldea Mulhern

Aldea Mulhern is working on a PhD at the Centre, and holds an MA in Religion and Culture (WLU) and a BA in Acting (Honors First-Class, Dalhousie). Her research constellates around food and religion, and includes ritual and performance, bodies and boundaries, feasting, fasting, and sacrifice. She likes to think about method and theory in the study of religion, theories of comparison, and the anthropological study of religion. Aldea’s dissertation will focus on lived religion through a study of what might be called a religious meat; when she isn’t going on about food, she wants to chat about pedagogy, writing and editing, and collaborative research and writing in the study of religion. She can be reached at aldea.mulhern@utoronto.ca.