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Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a contributing writer for America. He is the author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, an insider account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, and God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet, which both appeared in 2013 from University of California Press.
He has written about religion, technology, and social justice for publications including Harper's, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Catholic Worker and Commonweal. He been an editor of two online publications, Killing the Buddha and Waging Nonviolence, and is as a contributing editor for the Social Science Research Council's online forum on religion and public life, The Immanent Frame, and YES! Magazine. He holds an MA in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in the same subject from Brown University.
Follow his work on Twitter at @ntnsndr and on his website.
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