Donovan O. Schaefer

Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his B.A. in the interdisciplinary Religion, Literature, and the Arts program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His master’s and doctoral degrees are from the Religion program at Syracuse University. After completing his PhD, he held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Haverford College. From there, he went on to teach in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford for three years before taking up his position at Penn in 2017. His research focuses on the role of embodiment and emotion in religion, science, and secularism.