Casey A'Hearn is a first-year doctoral student in the Religion in the Americas subfield. Their research questions focus on understanding how religious worlds get constructed and how those worlds are interacted with by the social actors who construct them. This has led them to investigate the creation and function of scripture as a category. More specifically, Casey is interested in analyzing how scripture is used as a tool by social actors to build and navigate the world around them. Their areas of emphasis are philosophical phenomenology, race, social theory, gender, feminist theory, Mormonism, and 19th century American religion.

Before Princeton, Casey earned their M.A. in Religion in Culture from the University of Alabama and their B.A. at the University of Rochester. Their work is fueled by their curiosity and their passion for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion.”