Colleen McDannell
Colleen McDannell is a professor of history and the Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is a specialist in American religions. In 2019, her book Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy won an award given by the Organization of American Historians. Her publications in visual and material culture include the edited volume Catholics in the Movies (2007), Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression (2004), and now classic Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America (1995).