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Elizabeth M. Freese, PhD is a sociologist of religion, currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence with SACReD (Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity). Her research interrogates interactions between Christianity, the politics of reproduction, and intersectional feminist justice concerns. Freese’s advocacy essays have been featured in Salon, Religious Dispatches, Common Dreams, Feminism and Religion, and Justice Unbound. Recent academic publications include “What Grows in the Wilderness?: Feminist and Womanist Liturgical Offerings in a Time of Social Interregnum” (Proceedings Journal of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 2023) and “Toward Eve’s Exodus: Un-Misrecognizing Androcentric Reproductive Labor Ideology in Christian Right Rhetoric and Genesis 1-3” (Journal of Body and Religion, 2024). She is currently working on a book, Constructing Women: A Feminist Analysis of Reproductive Labor Ideology in Christian Myth and Ritual. Freese earned a PhD in Sociology of Religion with a Women’s Studies Concentration at Drew University.