Daniel Schultz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religion, Chair of the Religion Department
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Olin Hall 149
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509-527-5360
Professor Schultz received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017. Before coming to Whitman, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, where he taught for two years. He is a philosopher of religion working at the intersection of religious thought, modern philosophy, and gender studies. His published work explores themes that range from medieval art history to political theology to postcolonial historiography. His scholarship has appeared and is forthcoming in venues such as The Journal of Religion, Word & Image, Political Theology, History and Theory, and Brill’s The Medieval Franciscan series. He is currently writing a book that examines the ways religion is constituted as an object of knowledge in Michel Foucault’s later works.
His courses explore trajectories of modern religious thought in conversation with gender, race, and literature.
“Sacri Monti, Style, and the Politics of Franciscan Realism,” in Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications/DeGruyter, 2024), 217-235
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516870-014
Review of The History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh, by Michel Foucault. The Comparatist 47 (2023): 413-424. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911953
“Revolutionary Spectatorship and Subalternity: Foucault in Iran,” History and Theory Volume 61, Issue 1 (2022), 71-95 https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12249
“Foucault and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity,” Political Theology Volume 22, Issue 1 (2021): 46-52 https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1866814
“Flesh made word: sacramental visibility in the Bardi Panel of Santa Croce, Florence,” Word & Image Volume 36, Issue 4 (2020): 357-374 https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2020.1758897
“Elephants, Dreams, and Sex: Reading Religion in Foucault’s Ethics,” The Journal of Religion 99, no. 2 (April 2019): 173-193 https://doi.org/10.1086/701870
"Review of Mark D. Jordan, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault," The Journal of Religion 96, no. 3 (July 2016): 407-409. https://doi.org/10.1086/686586
"Review of Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present," Critical Inquiry, https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/daniel_schultz_reviews_a_face_drawn_in_sand/