Department

Religious Studies

Research

Rebekah K. Latour specializes in embodiment ethics, epistemology, sex and gender issues across Christian theologies and church histories. Her dissertation aims to contrast the writings of 16th century Protestant Reformation leaders such as Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin with the significant and understudied writings of  two Reformation women writers: Caritas Pirckheimer and Argula von Grumbach. By foregroudning these writers and upending the typical Reformation narrative, Lator seeks to provide a lens through which questions about the relationship between freedom and coercion, agency and restraint, resistance and creativity may find new footing.