The Faculty of Arts welcomse the 2024-25 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Religion and Pluralism

The University of Calgary and Faculty of Arts congratulates and welcomes Dr. Adrienne Krone, PhD, the 2025 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Religion and Pluralism. This residential academic exchange at UCalgary is for the Fall 2024 semester.

“I am honored and thrilled to be the 2024-25 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Religion and Pluralism within the Faculty of Arts at UCalgary," says Krone. "While at UCalgary, I will be working on my second book which I've tentatively titled, Jewish Community Farming, the Climate Crisis, and the Future of Judaism. I am looking forward to joining the UCalgary community and collaborating with faculty and students in the Department of Classics and Religion, the Faculty of Arts, and beyond. I am also hoping to spend some time at the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta, so that I can incorporate Alberta’s Jewish farming history into the early chapters of my book.” 

Adrienne Krone has a Ph.D. in American Religion from Duke University and she is currently Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability and Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, USA. Her research focuses on religious food justice movements in North America and her current research project is an ethnographic and historical study of the Jewish Community Farming movement. 

This decade-long exploration of twenty-five North American organizations demonstrates how engagements with food and farming improve the physical, mental and spiritual health of the Jews involved and how this movement is contributing to the future health of the Jewish people and the earth. Krone has published numerous book chapters and articles on this topic, including recent articles in Worldviews: Global Religion, Culture, and Ecology and Contemporary Jewry. Two Jewish Community Farms also served as case studies for her first book, Free Range Religion: Religious Food Justice Movements in North America, which is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.