Graduate Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making A Sanctified World published on the University of North Carolina Press, chronicles the history of African American women’s religious lives, and civic engagement in the Church of God in Christ, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. Professor Butler's most recent book, The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are Galvanizing the Religious Right was published by The New Press in 2014.

Executive Board Term End

S2020

field/interests

Histories of Gender and Sexuality Law, Politics, and Public Policy Women of Color Feminisms