Katie Oxx, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, joins the faculty at McDaniel College in the fall of 2008.  Dr. Oxx is an historian of Christianity primarily interested in lived religion in the US and contemporary global Christianities. 
Her current research is in the spatial construction of religious identity and the intersection of religion and human geography.  She has forthcoming publications in a number of journals, including American Catholic Studies and The Almanack: A Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, and a chapter in a volume celebrating the 200th anniversary of the diocese (now archdiocese) of Philadelphia.

Dr. Oxx received her PhD in 2006 from Claremont Graduate University outside of Los Angeles; her dissertation explored the religious ecology of Philadelphia in the early national period.  She has received numerous awards and grants, from the Library Company of Philadelphia for her work on evangelical Protestants in the 1820s, a US Department of Education Title VI grant for her exploration of contact between Christians and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean, and a St. Joseph’s University diversity grant to research African Christianities at the Library of Congress.  Oxx has taught a wide range of courses in the history of Christianity, U.S. religious history and religion and the social sciences.  She has been a member of the theology department at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia for the past two years and is on the board of the Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion where she is the History of Christianity unit chair.