Susan ReynoldsFaculty Fellow

Susan Reynolds is an Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Her research examines Catholic practice on the peripheries of church and society.

She is the author of People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury (Fordham University Press, 2023), which was awarded the 2024 Best Book prize by the College Theology Society. Her research into clergy sexual abuse in immigrant contexts has received awards from the Catholic Theological Society of America and Fordham University’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her work has appeared in academic journals including Religion and American Culture,U.S. Catholic Historian, American Catholic Studies, and Exchange.  She is a contributing writer for Commonweal magazine and a frequent participant in conversations on religion and public life in media such as CNN, NPR, and the Washington Post. 

As a Fox Center Faculty Fellow, Reynolds will be completing the manuscript of her second book, Ways of the Cross. The project, a multi-site theological ethnography, explores how communities recontextualize and perform the story of Christ's passion in the face of war, violence, epidemic, and displacement. Engaging the "Life/Story" theme, the project asks how such rituals reimagine what it means to stand “in the person of Christ” today.