Kathryn Reklis (Special Graduate Fellow and Consultant in Theological Education; 2008-2012) is the Co-Director of the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice based in New York City. She holds an MA from Yale Divinity School and an MA and MPhil from Yale University in Religious Studies, where she is also an advanced candidate for the Ph.D. Her research focuses on the intersection of Christian theology, performance studies, and ritual studies, seeking to understand how bodily gesture is constructed through ritual and performance activity to constitute a site of communal, individual and historical meaning. She is a Fellow of the Yale Initiative for Material and Visual Cultures of Religion and a Research Fellow for the New Media Project at Union Theological Seminary, where she also served as the Director of Theological Initiatives from 2008-2011.