Sierra Lawson
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Sierra Lawson is an Assistant Professor of World Christianity. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. in Religion and Culture in 2025 and is in the process of transforming her dissertation into a book manuscript titled Spilled Milk, Spilled Blood: Breastmilk, Religion, and Race in Transatlantic Spanish Empire. This project examines how body fluids functioned both discursively and materially for both Spanish settlers as well as Indigenous and African diasporic communities during the mid-16th to early 17th century in the viceroyalty of Peru. Her work generally engages with questions regarding the role of the body in the formation of the intersection between religion and race throughout the early modern period.
