Josh Lupo
Assistant Director of Research and Editorial Strategy
Josh is the assistant director of research and editorial strategy. In this role he acts as the editor for the Contending Modernities blog, provides research support for Ansari Institute projects, and manages the editorial process for manuscripts published in the Contending Modernities series at the University of Notre Dame Press. Josh received his Ph.D. in 2018 from Florida State University's Department of Religion. His forthcoming book with the University of Notre Dame Press, After Essentialism: A Critical Phenomenology for the Study of Religion, analyzes how phenomenologists of religion in the first half of the twentieth century appropriated—and misunderstood—classical philosophical phenomenology, and argues that Heidegger's existential phenomenology is a model for scholarly critique in the contemporary study of religion. With Atalia Omer he is the co-editor of Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism (UND press, 2024); Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian Nationalism and Racism (UND press, 2023), and Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism (UND press, 2022). With Ebrahim Moosa he is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Engaging the Madrasa: Education and Islamic Thought in a Changing World (UND press, 2026).