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GABRIEL ROBINSON
26 McTernan Street, Apt. 3, Cambridge MA 02139
robinsongabriel64@gmail.com
(617) 955-3487
EMPLOYMENT
Freelance Editor affiliated with Cambridge Academic Editors Network (ongoing)
Senior Researcher for a documentary film about the discovery of evolution
produced by HHMI for high school science classrooms (Feb-Sept 2013)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
University of Chicago, History of Religions
University of Chicago, History of Religions
Bard College, Religion
Second area of focus: Spanish Literature
August, 2012
June, 2000
June, 1996
DISSERTATION
Bull Fighting and Bull Taming: Formations of Religion and Masculinity
Advisor: Bruce Lincoln
Committee members: Wendy Doniger, Adrian Shubert
RESEARCH INTERESTS
myth, ritual, gender, ideology; animals and the epistemology of religious otherness
bullfighting, masculinity, and social history in Spain and Latin America
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
“Spanish Enlightenment and Animal Spirits: Feijóo and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism.” (in preparation for submission to
The Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies)
“Saint Teresa in Duruelo: Waste, Wilderness, and Social Location.” (in preparation for submission to Comparative Studies in
Society and History)
REVIEWS
Review of Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity, by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller,
Michael J. Puett, and Bennett Simon. Published in The Journal of Religion, July 2010
Review of The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, by Nancy J. Hirschmann. Online publication by
the American Political Science Association, Political Theory Section, 2005
INVITED LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
“Cosmological Crossings and Christian Frames: Christian, Shinto, and Norse Mythology in the Comic Series Lucifer.”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2010
“Bulls, Sodomy, and the King: Animal Tales and Temporal Power in Medieval Spain.” Gender and Sexuality Workshop,
Harvard University, 2009
“Picturing and Practicing Primordial Religion: The 1918 Exposition ‘El Arte en la Tauromaquia.’” American Academy of
Religion Annual Meeting, 2008
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“Religion, Gender, and Bullfighting: Modern and Ancient Myths.” Martin Marty Center for the Study of Religion, 2007
“Bullfighting and the History of Religions.” History of Religions Dissertation Workshop, 2007.
“Calling the Bull to Mass: Ritual Practice and Defense Against Superstition in Seventeenth Century Spain.” American
Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2007
“Women, Healing, and Invisible Power in the Counter-Reformation.” Center for Latin American Studies, Brown Bag
Luncheon Series, University of Chicago, 2006
“Bulls, Bishops, and Kings: Relocating the Religious Meaning of a Bull Myth.” Interdisciplinary Christianities Workshop,
University of Chicago, 2005
“Religious Issues in the Spanish Civil War: Anarchism, Catholicism, Millenarianism.” Introduction to the Study of Religion,
M.A. class lecture.
“Honor and Masculinity in Spanish Civil War Films.” Conference on War in Film and Television History, 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INSTRUCTOR
DePaul University, Introduction to Religion and Popular Culture: Sports (Winter 2007)
Designed syllabus and taught course of approximately 30 students. Introduced students to academic writing and research.
Worked on developing multiple drafts. Evaluated student papers.
Topics included Roman gladiatorial games, “Muscular Christianity,” Sumo and Shinto.
Columbia College, Exploring The Goddess (Fall, 2005 & Spring, 2006)
Designed syllabus and taught course of approximately 20 students. Introduced students to academic writing and research. Led
museum field trips. Evaluated student papers and projects.
Topics included contemporary debates about prehistoric goddesses, goddess worship and social power in Greece, India,
Haiti, and the U.S.
TEACHING ASSISTANT
University of Chicago, Women, Religion, and Human Rights (Spring 2007)
Assisted with classroom discussions and lectures. Met with students one-on-one to develop research topics and drafts. Graded
research papers of undergraduate students.
University of Chicago, Introduction to Religion and the Human Sciences (Winter 2005)
Assisted in syllabus construction. Led weekly discussion section of 5-7 students on topics such as secularization,
globalization, and religious resurgence, comparative method in the study of religion. Helped students develop paper topics
and drafts and prepare for class presentations.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Perrin Fund Travel Grant, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2010
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-09
Martin Marty Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2006-07
Center for Latin American Studies, Field Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2006
Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2006
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Wabash Fellow, Wabash Forum on Pedagogy and Comparative Religion, 2002-03
University of Chicago Divinity School Fellowship, 2001-03
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship, 1999
Irma C. Brandeis Prize for best thesis proposal, Bard College, 1995
Excellence and Equal Cost Scholarship, Bard College, 1992-96
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Contributor to The Cambridge Historian, 2012
Volunteer with Prison Books Program, Quincy, MA, 2009-2010
Coordinator of an academic support group for doctoral candidates and junior academics (2008-present)
Editorial Assistant, The Journal of Religion, University of Chicago, 2007-2008
Area Assistant for Religion and the Human Sciences, 2007-2008
Assistant Fiction Editor, volunteer, The Chicago Review, 1999-2004
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
LANGUAGES
Proficient in Spanish; reading knowledge of French, German; some background in Latin, Catalan
OTHER AFFILIATIONS AND INTERESTS
Cambridge Community Television
(member and volunteer; took classes in audio and video production, documentary filmmaking, photography, and animation;
coproduced a short documentary, “Spiritual Bazaar”)
Boston Comics Roundtable
(creator of “The Red Calf,” included in the anthology Hellbound II; volunteer with Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo)