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Welcome to Professor Lesley Northup's personal website.
If you are interested in FIU's Honors College, please click on the link provided.
If you are a student in one of my classes, or thinking about becoming one, you can look at current and/or earlier course syllabi to check out course content and find necessary information (including important links) for completing the course.
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Lesley A. Northup Dean of the Honors College (Interim)
Associate Professor
Myth and Ritual Studies, Religion in America
My first love is ritual studies, particularly liturgics (religious ritual) and its relationship to secular ritual. Closely tied to this interest is the study of myth, especially theories of myth and ritual. Both of these fields connect with my work in American religion, where I focus on contemporary religious phenomena and denominational studies but also cover 19th and 20th century US religious history. I am also interested in issues in women and religion, and have published Ritualizing Women and other works in the area of women's ritualizing. As a teacher, I bring a hands-on and personal approach to my students and to the course material. Some of my research has involved pedagogy, and I teach the department's pedagogy course. As a Master Scholar with the Florida Humanities Council, I work closely with the state's exceptional educators and have worked on my continuing interest in religion in Florida. As Dean of FIU's Honors College, I am closely involved with undergraduate teaching. |
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