Elizabeth Brocious

Elizabeth Brocious holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is a scholar of theological discourse in the United States, with a particular focus on Mormonism as it operates within the context of Christian thought. 

Broadly, she is interested in the practical and ethical implications of theological discourse. She seeks to understand not only how theological concepts are lived out in individual lives but especially how they contribute to the ethos of particular religious communities. Along those lines, her current research project focuses on philosophical and theological thought regarding the making of subjects. She examines the operations of subject-making in a religious context, how agency is implicated and nuanced through subject-making processes, and how theological communities discipline a subject in such a way that produces certain religious desires. 

Her dissertation, “The Mormon Ethical Subject: Reassessing Anthropological Discourse in Latter-day Saint Theology,” reflects these interests as it analyzes the historical and contemporary renderings of the Mormon subject through the lens of various theoretical frameworks for subjectivity.