Raffaella Taylor-Seymour completed her PhD in Comparative Human Development and Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2022. Trained as an anthropologist, her work examines religious life in Zimbabwe over the past two hundred years. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Lichtstern Prize for the Best Dissertation in Anthropology and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. 

She is an incoming Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, and was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia University and Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. At Chicago, she was a Fulbright Scholar, Martin Marty Junior Fellow in the Divinity School, and Dissertation Fellow at the Center for International Social Science Research. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology from King’s College, University of Cambridge.