USC Dornsife College Of Letters Arts and Sciences

University of Southern California

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Justin Wilford, Ph.D, is a cultural geographer whose work focuses on the ways social meaning is constructed and maintained in post-metropolitan, post-suburban space. His work has centered on religious practices and performances in contemporary post-suburban megachurches. He is the author of Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism (NYU Press, 2012). He is currently working on a project that explores religious narratives and performances in the construction of medical illness, healing, and wellness.

Justin Wilford