Location: Boren Hall 150
E-mail: mwdallam@ou.edu
Phone: 405-325-5291
Education
Dr. Dallam's expertise is in the area of American religion and culture. One of the recurrent themes in her work is marginalization; more specifically, she is interested in exploring groups that have become religious and cultural outsiders in the United States, whether by choice or default. Her books include Cowboy Christians (2018), Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer (2007), and two co-edited anthologies: Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America (2023) and Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (2014). She also serves as co-general editor of the journal Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
In her teaching, Dr. Dallam is motivated by the goal of helping students become more aware of, sensitive to, and respectful about religious differences in society. Her classes do not validate any one religious truth over another, nor do they deem any religious belief system to be either legitimate or illegitimate. By deliberately mixing source material from a range of fields and disciplines she creates opportunities for multiple points of engagement with complex ideas and sensitive subject matter. Dr. Dallam's classes emphasize careful discussion of texts, student-directed projects, learning research skills appropriate for humanities fields, and the development of cogent, focused writing.
Dr. Dallam also teaches an Honors course through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, which brings together OU students and incarcerated individuals for college classes.
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