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Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (J.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, and affiliated Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington. She studies the intersection of religion and law in the modern period, particularly the phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Harvard 1994); The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005), Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009), and A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and the Law (Chicago 2014). Professor Sullivan was a member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) during the 2010-2011 academic year and a fellow of the National Humanities Center in 2006-2007.

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