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:

Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)

January 2, 2023

Wild Experiment

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 a…

John Lardas Modern, "Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

May 23, 2022

Neuromatic

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 spraw…