PhD Student
Fields of Study
- Anthropology of Religion
- Religion, Culture & Politics
Areas of Interest
- Religion and Nature
- Death and Dying
- Material Culture
- Multispecies Ethnography
Biography
Madelyn is a PhD student at the Department for the Study of Religion. Her SSHRC-funded research will explore the ritual significance of funeral flowers through a multispecies lens. She holds a BA and MA in Religious Studies from McMaster University where she wrote on animism and anthropocentrism in Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si'.