Office of the President
President Kathryn McClymond, Ph.D.
Kathryn McClymond was appointed as the 18th President at K体育 University in November 2023 and is the university鈥檚 first female president. She previously served as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at K体育 University as well as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University.
Dr. McClymond is a scholar of comparative religions. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including a co-edited volume exploring how humanities disciplines contribute to research on moral injury among veterans. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Religion and the American Society of the Study of Religion, and she currently sits on Southern Athletic Association Conference Executive Committee as Incoming Chair and Treasurer.
Publications
Dr. Kathryn McClymond has published and presented nationally and internationally in the area of religious studies and historical research. She has published several books and authored multiple articles and chapters, as well as reference entries. Her current research, 鈥淔rom Swaddling to Shroud: Quilted Expressions of Ritual Moments,鈥� is in progress.
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Edited volume
Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Andrew I. Cohen and Kathryn McClymond, currently in production with Routledge Press.
Monographs
Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. (Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, 2009)
Articles & Chapters
鈥淚ntroduction: Remembering J.Z. Smith 鈥� Shaping our Field and Our Work in the Comparative Study of Religion鈥� in Remembering J.Z. Smith: A Career and its Consequence, eds. Emily D. Crews and Russell T. McCutcheon, Equinox Publishers, 2020, pp. 17-18.
鈥�,鈥� Religion, Special Issue, ed. Michael Strausberg. Taylor & Francis Group, Published online 10 November 2019.
鈥溾�楽acrifice鈥� in the Trump Era,鈥� Special issue: 鈥淪acrifice and Religion,鈥� ed. Daniel Ullucci. Religions 2019 10 (1).
鈥溾�� with Kathleen Fisher and Richard Newton, Teaching Theology and Religion vol. 22:2 (April 2019).
鈥淩esting-State Brain Fluctuation and Functional Connectivity Dissociate Moral Injury from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder鈥� Analysis of fMRI data to investigate the relationship between moral injury scores and resting-state fMRI activations.
Delin Sun, Rachel D. Phillips, Hannah L. Mulready, Stephen T. Zablonski, Jessica A. Turner, Matthew D. Turner, Kathryn McClymond, Jason A. Nieuwsma, Rajendra A. Morey. Depression and Anxiety 2019.
鈥淐omparison as Conversation and Craft,鈥� Religions vol. 9 (2), Special Issue 鈥淢ethodical Aspects of Comparison,鈥� ed. Oliver Freiberger, 2018.
鈥淔ascination of Sacrifice鈥� in Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity. Eds. Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte, and Marcel Poorthuis. Brill: Leiden, October 2016: 327-333.
鈥�The Chosen: Defining American Jewish Identity鈥� in Chaim Potok, The Chosen 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016: 353-371 (Reprint).
鈥沦补肠谤颈蹿颈肠别鈥� Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, ed. Bas van der Mije. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015: 264-270.
鈥沦补肠谤颈蹿颈肠别鈥� in Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology, eds. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. Ashgate, 2015: 85-97.
鈥淢oral Injury: A Case Study in Religion & Violence,鈥� with Tony Lemieux in Faith, War and Violence, ed. Gabriel R. Ricci. Religion and Public Life series vol. 39. Transaction Publishers, 2014: 165-177.
鈥�The Chosen: Defining American Jewish Identity,鈥� in Daniel Walden, Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2013: 3-19 (Reprint).
鈥淪acrifice and Science鈥� in Science and the World鈥檚 Religions vol. 2: Persons and Groups, eds., Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012, 183-202. Co-authored with Dr. David Bell.
鈥淰iolence and Sacrifice,鈥� The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, ed. Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2011: 320-330.
鈥淒on鈥檛 Cry Over Spilled Blood: Ritual Correction in the Mishnah鈥� in Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice, eds. Zsuzsa Varhelyi and Jennifer Knust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011: 235-250.
鈥淣egotiating Ritual Repair: The 辫谤腻测补艣肠颈迟迟补 Material in the Baudh膩yana 艢rauta S奴tra鈥� in Negotiating Rites, ed. Ute H眉sken and Frank Neubert, Ritual Studies International Series. Cambridge, Oxford University Press, 2011: 191-211.
鈥淪addam鈥檚 Execution as Sacrifice鈥� in Sacrifice Between Life and Death,ed. Walter Schweidler. Berlin: Sankt Augustin, 2009: 247-270.
鈥淩itual鈥� in Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, eds., Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods. London and New York: Routledge, 2008: 314-326.
鈥�The Chosen: Defining American Jewish Identity,鈥� Shofar volume 25, number 2 (Winter 2007), 4-23.
听鈥淵ou Are Where You Eat: Food, Utopia, and Hindus in America鈥� in Eating in Eden, Martha Finch and Etta Madden, eds. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2006: 89-106.
鈥淩itual and Power in Monsignor Quixote: A Ritual Studies Approach,鈥� Journal of Ritual Studies volume 20, number 1 (2006), 11-20.
鈥淭he Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual,鈥� Method and Theory in the Study of Religion volume16, number 4(Winter 2004), 337-366.
鈥淒eath Be Not Proud: Reevaluating the Role of Killing in Sacrifice,鈥� The International Journal of Hindu Studies volume 6, number 3 (December 2002), 221-242.
鈥淭he Gospel According to Oprah鈥� in Religion and Entertainment, ed. C. K. Robertson. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002: 173-192.
鈥淩eligion and the Arts,鈥� Bucknell Review vol. XLVI, no. 1. Special volume: Art and the Religious Impulse (Summer 2002), 26-41.
鈥淒iffering Intentions in Vedic and Jewish Sacrifice,鈥� The Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies volume IV (2001), 23-38.
鈥淢arketing Gender Awareness in the Classroom,鈥� Epoch膿: Journal for the Study of Religions, volume 21, number 1 (Fall 1998), 13-18.
Public Scholarship
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Reference Entries
鈥淪acrifice in Christianity,鈥� 鈥淪acrifice in Judaism,鈥� and 鈥淪acrifice in Hinduism鈥� entries in Encyclopedia of Love, ed. Yudit Greenberg (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007).
鈥淐ritical Thinking in Religious Studies鈥� in Critical Thinking in College, eds. George W. Rainbolt and Sandra L. Dwyer. Mason, OH, Thomson: 2007, 254-256.
听鈥溾�� in The New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line), last updated March 10, 2006.
Reviews
Review. Russell T. McCutcheon, 鈥淩eligion鈥� In Theory and Practice. Reviewed for Religion. In process.
Review. Ithamor Theodor and Yudit Greenberg, eds. Dharma and Halacha. Reviewed for Journal of Vaishnava Studies, in press.
Review. Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, & Nora L. Rubel, eds. Religion, Food, & Eating in North America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Reviewed for Material Religion vol. 12, no. 4 (December 2016), 527-528.
Review. Daniel C. Ullucci. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice. Oxford University Press. 2012. Reviewed for The Journal of Religion (July 2014).
Review: Kelly Denton-Borhaug. U.S. War-culture, Sacrifice and Salvation. Equinox Publishing Limited: 2011. Reviewed for Politics and Religion Vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2013), 224-226. (Published in conjunction with the American Political Science Association鈥檚 Religion and Politics Section)
Review: Douglas Hedley, Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred.New York: Continuum: 2011. Reviewed for Journal of Religion Vol. 93, no. 3 (July 2013), 393-399.
Review: Guy Stroumsa, The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Reviewed for Religion 40, no. 3 (July 2010), 221-222.
Review: When Rituals Go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual. Ute H眉sken, ed. Numen 听Book Series: Studies in the History of Religion, vol. 115. Brill: Leiden, 2007. Reviewed for Numen 56 (2009), 507-509.
Review: Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Margins. Reviewed for Numen 55, no. 1 (2008), 105-107.
Review: Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Reviewed for Religion 35 (2005) 266-271.
Review: Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France in Journal of the American Academy of Religion Volume 72, Issue 3 (September 2004), 798-799.
Review: The Stranger Within Your Gates. Gary G. Porton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.听 Reviewed for Epoch膿: Journal for the Study of Religions XIX (1994), 130-132.
