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About Alison Renna

Alison Renna is a PhD student at Yale working between religious studies and science and technology studies. Alison is an intellectual historian of consciousness studies, the history of ecology, and Western philosophy.

Alison Renna is a PhD candidate studying the history of ideas at Yale University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Alison:

Science, Technology, and Society January 2, 2023

Wild Experiment

Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin

Donovan O. Schaefer

Hosted by Alison Renna
In Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke UP, 2022), Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy …
On Religion May 23, 2022

Neuromatic

Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain

John Lardas Modern

Hosted by Alison Renna
In Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain (U Chicago Press, 2021), religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the …