Degrees:
Ph.D., Princeton Univ.
M.A., Princeton Univ.
B.A., Barnard College
Leslie Ribovich (she/her) is an educator and scholar of religion, race, and education in American public life. At Trinity, Ribovich is the Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life.
Her research focuses on the history of religion in the United States and its intersections with race, education, and moral formation. She is the author of Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools (NYU Press, 2024), as well as articles in American Religion, The New Republic, Religion & Politics, and elsewhere.
Ribovich aims to cultivate a shared space for critical examination, understanding, and transformation in her teaching. At Trinity, Ribovich teaches courses cross-listed between Religious Studies and Public Policy & Law on religion, politics, and policy; religion and prisons; and religion, race, and education. She has previously taught classes ranging from African American Religions to the Bible to First-Year Composition at Transylvania University, the Princeton Writing Program, Fordham University, and New Jersey state prisons.
Ribovich was selected as one of the Young Scholars in American Religion (2020-2023) and founded a project on the history of race and people of color and Transylvania University.
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American Religions
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Religion in Public Life
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Race and Religion
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Religion and Education
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Religion and Prisons
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Religion, Policy, and Law
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American Religions
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Religion in Public Life
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Race and Religion
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Historical Memory
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Religion, Race, and Education
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Religion, Policy, and Law
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Incarceration
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Moral Formation
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Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools
(New York University Press, 2024)
- “Saving Black Boys: Delinquency, Race, and the Institutionalization of Religious Practice at the Wiltwyck School for Boys, 1937-1942,” American Religion, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2020): 101-130.
- “Brown v. Board and ‘Religion and Law’ Beyond the First Amendment,” Bloomsbury Religion in North America, Religion and Law, edited by Mona Oraby (in press, scheduled for October 2024).
- “Educating for the New Jerusalem to Deliver the Messianic Age: Imagining Friendship for Other Futures with Louis Finkelstein and James Baldwin,” with Dr. Cara Rock-Singer; forthcoming in The Jewish Quarterly Review.
- “Don’t Forget Your Backpack!” in Pocket Instructor: Writing, edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw, Princeton University Press (2024).
- Nov. 2023 “Inheriting Whiteness: the Cold War Public School as Parent in Moral and Spiritual Values Curricula,” Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting.
- Jan. 2023 “Fearing ‘no evil’ by ‘thinking of you all the time’: Religious and National Identity in the Curious Case of Gifts Sent to the Manhattan School for Children after 9-11,” American Society of Church History Winter Meeting.
- July 2022 “The Supreme Court’s Holy War Against Public Schools,” with Dr. Charles McCrary. The New Republic.
- July 2021 “Why Is Critical Race Theory Being Banned in Public Schools?,” with Dr. Charles McCrary. Religion & Politics.
- Oct. 2020 “Teaching Religion, 1955,” with Eden Consenstein. American Religion: Sources.
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- DEI Champion Award, Transylvania University, 2024.
- Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI, 2020-2023.
- The Council of Independent Colleges, Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education Faculty Seminar, 2022.
- David and Betty Jones Faculty Development Fund Grant, Transylvania University, 2020-2024.
- Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative Project Grant for Transy and Race Project, Transylvania University, 2020-2023.
- Religion and Public Life Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2014-2017.
- Department of Religion Teaching Award, Princeton University, 2015-2016.
- Beinecke Scholarship, The Sperry Fund, 2011-2016.
- Clarke Chambers Travel Fellowship, Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota, 2014.
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