Alicia Juskewycz is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Princeton
University, where she studies the social construction and everyday uses of the
knowledge category of religion. She is currently working on a number of projects
in which the case of culturally marginal and separatist groups can help inform
understanding of the broader social use of the idea of “religion,” while
sharpened attention to the latter can likewise reshape understandings of
concrete extreme cases and political problems. She was raised in the
Transcendental Meditation movement in Iowa.
