Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Winnifred F. Sullivan is an American author and a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. She has taught such courses as The Politics of Religious Freedom, Interpreting Religion, The Trial of Joan of Arc, and Christmas: The Church-State History of the World's Most Popular Holiday.

Sullivan has done interviews with Radio Canada, Religious Studies News and the New Book in Religion. 1997: Gleen Grant for Summer Research, Washington University & Lee University

Publications Books Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (1994). The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2005; new edition with new preface by author, 2018). Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2009). A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (2014).

Awards Sullivan received the AAR Book Award for Excellence in the analytical-descriptive studies category in 2015. In 2017, she was nominated for the 2018 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. She won The Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion in 2017, which was awarded by the American Academy of Religion.