E-mail: derogat1@msu.edu
Personal Homepage: http://www.msu.edu/~derogat1
Office: 117D Morrill Hall
Office phone: (517) 432-7158

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1998 (Religious Studies)
M.T.S, Harvard Divinity School, 1990
B.A., Oberlin College, 1987

Principal Scholarly Interests

American religion and culture, nineteenth-century Protestant home missionaries, religion and gender, religion, bodies, and the American environment.

Biographical Profile

Amy DeRogatis is Associate Professor of Religion and American Culture. She has taught at Michigan State since 1998. DeRogatis teaches courses about Religion in the United States and Religion, Sexuality and Gender, as well as REL 101: Exploring Religions. She has received a national recognition for excellence in undergraduate teaching of Religious Studies. DeRogatis’ first book: Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries and the American Frontier (Columbia, 2003) has been reviewed in Religious Studies and American History journals. She is the author of numerous essays on religion and American culture, her most recent “What Would Jesus Do? Sexuality and Salvation in Protestant Evangelical Sex Manuals, 1950s to the Present” can be found in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture (March 2005). DeRogatis’ next book, Women and Religion in the United States Since he 1960s will be published by Columbia University Press in 2006.