Angela Xia received her Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in American studies from Columbia University. Her research examines interactions between religion, secularism, and biomedicine in the late 20th century.
Her dissertation and first book project, titled “The Rest of Life: Old Age and the Politics of Care in the United States, 1946–1981,” uses the case study of eldercare to understand how religion has shaped the ethics and infrastructure of modern American healthcare.
Phd, UPenn (2024)
B.A., American Studies, Columbia University (2018)
- Religion and political economy
- 20th Century American Religious History
- Health, Healing, and Therapeutic Culture
- Anthropology of Christianity
- Secularism Studies
Modernity, Science, and Secularism
Material and Visual Culture
• "Religions of the West" (TA, Fall 2021)
• "African American Religions"(TA, Spring 2021)
• "Gender, Sexuality, and Religion" (TA, Fall 2020)
• "Sacred Stuff: Religious Bodies, Places, and Things" (TA, Spring 2020)
Click here to see my reflections on Penn RELS’ recent conference, ‘Material Secularisms.’
American Academy of Religion
American Anthropological Association
American Historical Association
American Society for Church History
Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine