About
Dr. Brook Wilensky-Lanford holds a PhD in Religion in the Americas from UNC Chapel Hill. Her research interests include religion, race, and literature in the Long Reconstruction; ideas of utopia; and the entangled histories of religion and liberalism. The author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden on Earth, her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is Associate Director of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship on Religion and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.