Izzak Novak
Izzak Novak is a PhD candidate in American Religions. His research seeks out the unexpected (and sometimes unwanted) ways religion surfaces in US culture. He is currently exploring hunting as emblematic of the bleeding between various domains of culture and as a catalyst for multibeing relationships. He is committed to laying bare lived realities using good-faith, three-dimensional depictions of his interlocutors and subjects. Broadly, he is interested in the legal and cultural negotiation of religion and “spirituality”; religious freedom and religion and the law; neoliberalism and religion; and the religious work performed by children, adolescents, and young adults. Before coming to Northwestern, Izzak completed an A.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences at the County College of Morris, a B.A. in Religion at Columbia University, and an M.A. in Religion at Yale University. His advisor is Robert Orsi.