Lisa Stenmark teaches at San Jose State University.  She is the author of Religion, Science and Democracy: A Disputational Friendship, and co-editor (with Whitney Bauman) of the series Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse. She has published numerous papers on religion, science and technology, more recently looking at how certain ways of thinking about “religion and “science” contributes to the negative impacts of globalization, particularly in the context of Viet Nam. She is active in the American Academy of Religion, the Arendt Circle, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She has an MDiv/MA from PLTS/ GTU, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt.