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Helen Orr

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Department: Religious Studies

Location: Spence Pavilion-Religion/Phil., Office 209
Mailing address: 2340 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-2903

News & Notes

Education

Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019.

M.T.S., Harvard University, 2008.

B.A., Trinity University, 2004.

Courses Taught

Rel 1000 - Religion in a Global Context

Rel 1702 - Religion and A.I.

Rel 2380 - Religion and Film

Rel 3110 - Beyond Conflict and Tolerance: Interreligious Encounter and Social Change (Capstone for the Interreligious Studies minor and an AER designated course)

Research

Religion in the Balkans/Southeast Europe, religion and memory, processes of social suffering and recovery, post-conflict society, religion and globalization, production of ethno-religious identity, the commodity form, the performative turn and performance studies, new materialisms/materiality, critical ethnographic practice

Grants Awarded

2017-2018 UNC Doctoral Dissertation Fellow

2015-2016 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grantee