Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she holds the Marlene Crandell Francis Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2020), an ethnography about masculinity and men’s devotional lives in a gentrified neighborhood in New York City. She is editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief and co-chair of the Men, Masculinities, and Religion unit at the American Academy of Religion. She was chosen as one of the Young Scholars in American Religion at IUPUI’s Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture. She is currently working on a material and sensory history of the rosary. This is part of a broader project about devotional technologies that explores how Catholic entrepreneurs and inventors remade and reimagined devotional stuff for different technological moments throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. She received her PhD in Religion from Princeton University.