Mark Cladis
Mark S. Cladis (born May 20, 1958) is an author and the Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. He is also chair of the Department of Religious Studies. His teaching and scholarship are located at the various intersections of religious studies, philosophy, and environmental humanities. He has published five books. His current book project is "Radical Romanticism, Democracy, and the Environmental Imagination". He has also published over sixty articles, essays, and chapters in edited books. Raised in Stanford, California, Cladis attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned his BA in religious  studies. After receiving his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied philosophy and social theory as they relate to the field of religious studies, he taught at Stanford University and Vassar College, where he served as chair for six years. He arrived at Brown University in 2004 and has served as chair. He is a Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities, a founding member of "Environmental Humanities at Brown" (EHAB), and is an active faculty member in "Native American and Indigenous Studies at Brown" (NAISAB). He has won several awards and fellowships from such organizations as: the Carnegie Foundation , the Fulbright Senior Research Award Program, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange. He was a Fellow and visiting scholar at Oxford University as well as the Maison des Science de l'Homme at the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, École Polytechnique. Life, education, and career. Mark Cladis was raised in Stanford, California. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied religion and philosophy after switching out of a physics and math major. After graduating from UCSB, he continued his education in a doctoral program at Princeton  University, where he studied philosophy and social theory as they relate to the field of religious studies. After studying for three years at Princeton, having completed his preliminary exams, he taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro for two years. Upon completing his doctorate from Princeton, Cladis taught at Stanford University with a joint appointment in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and then at Vassar College. He now serves as Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Brown University. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife and three children. Authorship. Cladis has also authored over sixty articles, journals , and chapters in edited books. His publications have appeared in such journals, books, and fields of study as: Philosophy of Religion/Religious Ethics: Environmental Humanities: Religion, Philosophy, and Literature: Religion and Political and Social Theory: Visiting research appointments. Cladis was a fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University; a visiting scholar at Oxford's Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; a visiting research fellow at Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique; and a scholar in residence at Maison Suger: Maison des Science de l’Homme.