Ronald L. Grimes

Ronald L. Grimes, Director of Ritual Studies International, is co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series. He is author/editor of several books on ritual, including Ritual, Media, and Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2011); Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts (Oxford University Press, 2006); and Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage (University of California Press, 2002). He is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, where he taught courses on religion and the performing arts, field research in the study of religion, ritual studies, and indigenous religions. Grimes held the Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from 2005-2010, and for the academic year 2011-2012, he an ISM Fellow, as well as Senior Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer at Yale University.