Jennifer Snow received her doctorate in Religion from Columbia University in 2003. She has studied and published on religious justice activism, with a special focus on how religion has shaped American perceptions of race, culture, and citizenship. Her book, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigration, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924, was published in 2007. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, she worked as the Deputy Director of Progressive Christians Uniting, an ecumenical justice advocacy organization, where she developed new congregational-level programs on environmental justice and on GLBT rights, learning about the wide variety of models of social change in community, grassroots, and national policy levels. In 2007, she was named as a Young Adult Eco-Justice Fellow by the National Council of Churches. Her most recent research project focuses on the work of mid-twentieth century missionaries to Africa, and the ways in which they structured African perceptions of marriage, sexuality, and Christian identity. In addition to writing and teaching, she currently works with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to develop and implement training for congregations on the meaning and purpose of "mission" in the 21st century global context. She now lives in Alameda, California, contributing to the beginnings of an emergent community.
Jennifer Snow received her doctorate in Religion from Columbia University in 2003. She has studied and published on religious justice activism, with a special focus on how religion has shaped American perceptions of race, culture, and citizenship. Her book, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigration, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924, was published in 2007. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, she worked as the Deputy Director of Progressive Christians Uniting, an ecumenical justice advocacy organization, where she developed new congregational-level programs on environmental justice and on GLBT rights, learning about the wide variety of models of social change in community, grassroots, and national policy levels. In 2007, she was named as a Young Adult Eco-Justice Fellow by the National Council of Churches. Her most recent research project focuses on the work of mid-twentieth century missionaries to Africa, and the ways in which they structured African perceptions of marriage, sexuality, and Christian identity. In addition to writing and teaching, she currently works with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to develop and implement training for congregations on the meaning and purpose of "mission" in the 21st century global context. She now lives in Alameda, California, contributing to the beginnings of an emergent community