Kristy Nabhan-Warren is Professor and V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies at The University of Iowa. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between religion, migration, ethnicity and work. She is trained as a cultural historian of religion in the United States and as an anthropologist of religion. She is the author of two books, The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism (NYU Press 2005) and The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants and Fourth-Day Spirituality (UNC Press, 2015). Kristy is currently editing The Handbook of Latino/a Christianities for Oxford University Press (Forthcoming Spring 2020) and is writing her third manuscript, Cornbelt America: Work, Food and Faith in the Heartland. She is the creator of and Series editor for The University of North Carolina new book series ''Ethnographies of Religion.'' She loves to teach, and regularly teaches General Education courses ''Religions in America Today'' and ''Sport and Religion in America.'' Her graduate-level courses include ''Writing Religion, Writing Culture,'' and ''Gender and Religion,'' and ''American Religious Histories.'' Kristy enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, running, kayaking, and cooking for family and friends.