Catherine Anne Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School.
[1] Brekus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature from Harvard University in 1985,[1][2][3] having submitted the honors thesis Women in the Chartist Movement: Historical and Literary Images.
[4] She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in American studies from Yale University[3] with the dissertation "Let Your Women Keep Silence in the Churches": Female Preaching and Evangelical Religion in America, 1740–1845.
[5] Brekus' works have included a history of female preaching in America entitled Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845 (1998) and a history of early evangelicalism based on a woman's diaries entitled Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America (2013).
[6] She has been involved in efforts to reprise women's role within American religious history, organizing the first conference on the topic in the United States in 2003.