About

SB Rodriguez-Plate (aka "S Brent Plate"), PhD, is a writer, public speaker, editor, and part time college professor whose books include "A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects," "Blasphemy: Art that Offends," and "Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World." Their essays have been published in Salon, Time, The Christian Century, The Islamic Monthly, Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, and elsewhere. They are a board member of the Interfaith Coalition of Greater Utica, NY, and Executive Director of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life and Editor of the journal CrossCurrents.

Other Works

  • Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World

    2017
  • Blasphemy: Art that Offends

    2006

Awards and Recognition

  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2021 (calendar year)
  • American Philosophical Society - Franklin Research Grant, 2013
  • American Academy of Religion research grant, 2009