Faculty

Biography

Joshua Dubler is associate professor of religion at the University of Rochester. He founded the Rochester Prison Education Project, which in 2019 became the Rochester Education Justice Initiative, and which he directed until 2026. He is the author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison (FSG, 2013); co-author of Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (Oxford, 2019); co-editor of Religion, Law, USA (NYU, 2019), and co-author of The Abyss or Life is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion (Chicago: 2022). He is currently completing a book manuscript on the cultural history of guilt in the United States.

Dubler regularly teaches "Incarceration Nation," a community-engaged abolitionist history of human caging in the United States; and the seminars “Guilt,” “Religion and Film,” and “The Spirit of Capitalism."

Interviews

C-SPAN, Afterwards with Josh Dubler
WNYC, Religious Life in an American Prison
Jeff Schechtman's "Specific Gravity", Religion and mass incarceration
Marginalia, Joshua Dubler talks to MRB’s Joseph Williams

Book Reviews for "Down in the Chapel"

Los Angeles Review of Books
Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
The Daily Beast
Publisher's Weekly