Ryan J. Cook
Visiting Instructor
Department of Anthropology
825D Damen Hall
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Illinois 60660
773.508.3447
rcook2@luc.edu
Ryan Cook is a cultural anthropologist who studies the intersection of scientific and religious fields, particularly how people draw and blur boundaries between those fields. He has conducted research on new religious movements and heterodox sciences in Mexico and the United States.
COURSES TAUGHT
ANTH 102 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 271 Globalization and Local Cultures
ANTH 316 Anthropology of Religion and Ritual
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
2008 The Alien Abduction Phenomenon and Religious Experiences. In Fátima Revisited. Andrew D. Basiago, ed. Pp. 129-137. San Antonio: Anomalist Books.
2007 The Production of 'Science' and 'Religion' in Ufology and UFO Religious Movements, in panel Worlds in Collusion: Entangling Religious and Scientific Fields. Paper presented and panel organized for Society for the Anthropology of Religion annual meeting, Phoenix AZ
2006 Review of Rave Culture and Religion (St. John, ed. 2004). Nova Religio 9(2):107-109.
2003 News Media and the Religious Use of UFOs: The Case of Chen Tao-True Way. In Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions. James R. Lewis, ed. Pp. 301-320. Amherst: Prometheus.
1999 God's Descending in Clouds (Flying Saucers): Anthropological Approaches to UFOs in the Religious Register. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago IL
EDUCATION
2004 PhD, University of Chicago
1998 MA, University of Chicago
1996 BA, St. Cloud State University