Dr. Anthony Petro (They/Them/Theirs or He/Him/His)
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
- Gender Identity: Queer
- Sexual Orientation: Queer
- First generation college student
- Religion: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence enthusiast
Anthony Petro (he/they) is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. I also direct the Health Humanities Program at BU. My teaching and research interests include religion and culture in the United States; religion, medicine, and public health; and gender and sexuality studies. My first book, After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2015), examined the history of U.S. religious responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis. I’m currently writing a book about religion and feminist/queer visual culture.
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