Heather Curtis

Heather Curtis received her doctorate in the history of Christianity, with an emphasis on North American religions, from Harvard University in the spring of 2005. During 2005-2007, she was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. She is currently an Assistant Professor of the history of Christianity and American religion at Tufts University. Her research and teaching interests include exploring the intersections of religion and the natural, medical and human sciences; movements of religious healing; gender and women's studies in religion; the religious history of American children and youth; and the study of spirituality and devotional practice. She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled, The Lord for the Body: Physical Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900.

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