Rebecca Kneale Gould

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Rebecca Gould

Associate Professor of Religion

Franklin Environmental Ctr Hillcrest 209

Phone: 802.443.2548

Email: rgould@middlebury.edu

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Harvard and Radcliffe College;
M.A., Emory University;
A.M., Harvard University;
Ph.D., Harvard University

Rebecca Kneale Gould is Associate Professor of Religion and Affiliate in Environmental Studies where she teaches courses in American Religious History, Religion and Nature, Religion and Social Change in America, and Simplicity in American culture. Her book, At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, has recently been published by The University of California Press (2005). At Home in Nature is an ethnographic and historical study of back-to-the-land experiments based on research she conducted while living and working at the homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing. She is currently engaged in a research project entitled "Religion on the Ground: The New Environmentalism of Religious Institutions," funded by the Louisville Institute. She is a fellow in the Young Scholars Program of the Center for American Religion at IU-IUPUI. She is a Board Member of two national non-profit initiatives: The Simplicity Forum and Take Back Your Time.