Angela XiaInstructor of Religious Studies 122 Coates Hall |
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Dr. Xia is a historian of religion and medicine in the modern United States. Her research examines how religion shaped the ethics and infrastructure of America’s healthcare system from the postwar period onwards, particularly in settings outside the clinic. She is currently finishing her first book, Adding Life to Years: Religion and the Making of American Eldercare. |
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B.A. in American Studies, Columbia University (2018) Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2024) REL 1000: Religions of the World Recipient of the Research Travel Grant, American Catholic Historical Society (2025) Recipient of the Research Fellowship, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2023–2024) Recipient of the Alexander N. Charters Research Grant, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University (2023) Recipient of the 30th Anniversary Research Fellowship, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia (2023) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters "The Religious Reception of Gerontology in the Long 1950s,” American Religion, forthcoming "Introduction to Forum on Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole," Journal of Disability and Religion 28 (2024): 456–58
Book Reviews “Heroes for a Hot, Gray Future: A Review of James Chappel’s Golden Years,” American Catholic Studies Newsletter 52 (2025): 78–82
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