Hannah Dick
Associate Professor
| Building: | Richcraft Hall |
| Department: | School of Journalism and Communication |
| Degrees: | B.A. (Hons) M.A. in Religion and Modernity, Queen’s University; Ph.D. in Communication, University of California San Diego |
Biography
Biography
My work brings together communication and media studies with the study of religion. I hold a PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and an MA in Religion and Modernity from Queen’s University. Prior to joining Carleton I worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU), in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
Research Interests
My research focuses on how religion mediates and is mediated by political, legal, and cultural discourses. My SSHRC-funded research project on the discourse of Christian persecution explores the ways that conservative Christian political and legal advocacy groups in the U.S. have employed the language of victimization in order to carve out ever-greater spaces of exemption from antidiscrimination law. More recently I have been looking at the overlap between religion and conspiracy theories in both the U.S. and Canada. My work is informed by intersectional feminist theory and critical cultural studies.
I teach courses in media and religion, political communication, and media theory. I am available to supervise students working on the following topics/areas:
- religion
- political communication
- the public sphere
- the cultural politics of popular representations
- communication and media theory
Publications
“Americanized Discourses of Religious Freedom and Christian Persecution During the 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy” Studies in Religion 54.1 (2025): 32-46.
“About Face: Hypocrites and Outliers in Canadian News Coverage of Masking and Anti-Masking During the Coronavirus Pandemic” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 46.1 (2023): 329-352.
“The Invisible Center: Christian Liberalism in American Religious Freedom Jurisprudence” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 19.1 (2023): 144-166.
“Advocating for the Right: Alliance Defending Freedom and the Christian Persecution Complex” Feminist Legal Studies 29.3 (2021): 375-397.
“Framing Faith During the 2016 Election: Journalistic Coverage of the Trump Campaign and the Myth of Evangelical Schism” in Evangelicals and Presidential Politics, Ed. Andrew Moore, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press: 2021.
“Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the Media: Popular Depictions of a Religious Minority” Journal of Popular Culture 52.1 (2019): 75-97.
“Not Without Precedent: Populist White Evangelical Support for Trump” Berkeley Journal of Sociology published online 9 May 2017
Commentary
“In Québec, Christian Liberalism Becomes the Religious Authority” The Conversation Apr 7, 2019
“New Premier, Same Old Story: Québec’s Longtime Anti-Niqab Efforts” The Conversation Oct 4, 2018