Natalie Wigg-Stevenson teaches Contextual Education and Theology at Emmanuel College. She is a recent graduate from Vanderbilt University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Theology. At Vanderbilt, she was also a Fellow in The Program in Theology and Practice, a program dedicated to equipping teachers of people preparing for ministry.

Natalie’s current research delves into how ethnographic methods could help theologians better understand and nurture the places of overlap between theologies created across churches, academies and broader cultures. Her dissertation, Faith in My Bones: An Exercise in Ethnographic Theology, explores such questions. She is also interested in liturgical, feminist and queer theologies, pop culture, and in the growing relationship between cultural theories of practice, aesthetics, and theology, particularly as each relates to contemporary understandings of human agency.