Raffaella Taylor-Seymour is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life and a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. Trained as an anthropologist, her work examines religious life in Zimbabwe over the past two hundred years. Raffaella holds a joint PhD in Anthropology and Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the Lichtstern Prize for the Best Dissertation in Anthropology and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. At Chicago, she was a Fulbright Scholar, Martin Marty Junior Fellow in the Divinity School, and Dissertation Fellow at the Center for International Social Science Research. She holds an MA in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from King’s College, University of Cambridge. Before coming to Columbia, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Raffaella’s full profile on the Department of Religion website can be viewed here.