Jennifer Graber

Jennifer Graber is Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She works on Native American religions, religion and violence, and inter-religious encounters in American prisons and on the American frontier. She is the author of The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Dr. Graber holds a Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University (2006).