Damon Berry completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2014 and joined St. Lawrence University in northern New York in the Department of Religious Studies as a visiting professor that same year. In 2018, he became an assistant professor on the tenure track and was tenured in 2022 with a promotion to associate professor. At St. Lawrence, he has developed courses for religions in the United States, African American religious traditions, and seminars on conspiracy theories in religions and on the history of Satanism. He has also advised numerous research projects, including honors theses on topics as diverse as the gendered dynamics of Christian Zionism, the implementation of Christian ethics as a method of control in American prisons, and the debate over #BlackLivesMatter in the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of Blood & Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism, Christianity & The Alt-Right, and a forthcoming book on the New Apostolic Reformation and Evangelical support for Trump.
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