Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
phone: 404-413-6134
e-mail: mbassett(at)gsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

RelS 4080/6080, Religious Dimensions in Human Experience  http://relidim.wordpress.com/   (outside webiste)
RelS 3270, Survey of World Religions    http://rels3270.wordpress.com/   (outside webiste)

Dr. Bassett is an affiliate faculty member with the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics.

Areas of Interest:

Mesoamerican Religions: Arts of the Americas: Ritual and the Body; Deities and Death; Creation and Cosmology

Selected Publications:

“Coloring the Sacred in the New World,” in The Material Culture of Color in the Modern World, 1400-1800. Edited by Andrea Feeser and Beth Fowkes Tobin. London: Ashgate, forthcoming 2012.

“Meeting the Gods: Apotheoses and Exchanges of the Early Encounter,” Material Religion. London: Berg, forthcoming 2012.

“Reading at Its Best,” a Teaching Tactic in Teaching Theology & Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2012.

“Indigenous Religions, Global,” in The Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. London: Sage, March 2011. 741-744.

“Religion in Mesoamerica: A Case for Comparative Religious Studies” in Religious Studies Review, 33:3 (July) 193‐199.