Andrew Walker-Cornetta
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty for The Center for Leadership in Disability- Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
M.A., New York University
B.A., Indiana University
- Specializations
US Religious Studies, Disability History, Catholic Studies
- Biography
Dr. Walker-Cornetta’s research explores cultural locations of disability as sites of religious practice. He is currently working on a book project about US Catholics and cognitive impairment in the middle of the twentieth century. Prior to coming to Georgia State, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He’s currently an Emerging Scholar at Indiana University’s Center on Religion and The Human.
- Publications
- “Without the Lord: Eliza Suggs, Religion, and the Good Disabled Subject,” American Religion 5.1 (Fall 2023), https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/916422
- “‘These Are Our Saints’: A Lourdes Shrine, The St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, and the Catholic Remaking of Cognitive Disability,” in American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism, eds. Katherine Dugan and Karen Park (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), 261-285. Honorable Mention, New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas, The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University, April 2024. https://research.library.fordham.edu/relig/27/
- “A Different Grammar,” Roundtable response to Rebecca Comay’s Deadline(s), Center for Religion and the Human website, Indiana University, October 2020. https://crh.indiana.edu/projects/being-human-institute/deadlines.html
- “Unsingular Subjects,” in Sources, American Religion (online), October 2019. https://www.american-religion.org/provocations/unsingular