Niki Kasumi Clements is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor of Religion at Rice University. Researching Michel Foucault’s fascination with Christianity and ethics, her first monograph, Sites of the Ascetic Self, elaborates ethical formation in John Cassian. Clements is working on two books analyzing Foucault’s last decade through the archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Foucault’s Histories of Sexuality and Foucault the Confessor.