Dominic Wetzel

Dominic Wetzel is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University and member of the editorial collective of Situations: Project for the Radical Imagination. Long involved in queer and global justice organizing, his work looks at the intersections of religion, politics, and sexuality. His dissertation “Re-enchanting the World: Religion, Desire and the Crisis of Modernity” analyzes the negative utopian desire of the Catholic charismatic movement. He received his PhD in Sociology from the Graduate Center at CUNY in 2010. He is currently working on a project that examines the “hidden religious and class histories” of younger generations of queer people who grew up within post-1980s conservative, politicized religious movements.