Kali Handelman

www.kalihandelman.com || kali.handelman@gmail.com

Experience

NYU Center for Religion & Media

Program Coordinator and Editor, online magazine The Revealer July 2013 – Present
● Independently soliciting, editing, publishing, and promoting over 50 articles a year; Increasing access to
academic expertise and perspectives on religion for academic and non-academic readers; Providing crucial
training for scholars in public writing and journalists in nuanced reporting; Recruiting and maintaining a roster of
accomplished and emerging thinkers; Successfully developing strategies for raising the profile of the center and
the magazine: Doubled Facebook followers in 2 years; over 4k Twitter followers currently gaining avg. 1/day);
over 2k MailChimp newsletter subscribers
● Planning and managing expenses, accounts payable, and reporting for internal $60k/year operating budget and
$100k/year grant budget for center and magazine; Co-Principal Investigator on $300k major foundation grant.
● Conceiving, publicizing, and handling operations for average of 6 public programs annually with hundreds of
attendees. Leading collaboration with organizations within and outside the university including the Magnum
Foundation and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University.
● Recruiting, hiring, and managing post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars and student employees.

Freelance Academic Editor and Consultant November 2017 – Present

● Dissertation-to-book writing coach; Line and copy-editing academic monographs for books published by
Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press; Writing RFPs and ongoing consultant for The Magnum
Foundation project “On Religion.”

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Manager of Program Development October 2013 – Present
● Liaison between staff, faculty, and the public for innovative educational non-profit; Using e-commerce to manage
course registration; Running scholarship program; Expanding faculty and cultural and academic network.

Eugene Lange College, The New School for Liberal Arts

Part-Time Faculty Fall 2014 and Spring 2018
● Designed and taught “Theorizing Religion” (2014) seminar on the history, theories, and methods of religious
studies and “Religion Matters: Writing About Religion & Media online” (2018) seminar and writing course.
Avg. 4.56/5 student evaluations and excellent dept. chair assessment.

Ear Studio, Inc., Studio of media artist Ben Rubin

Research Assistant and Office Manager January 2006 – September 2010
● Managed bookkeeping, editing, research, and correspondence for art studio focused on large-scale projects

Selected Presentations & Workshops

● Framing Terror: A Conversation on Masculinity, Religion, and Gun Violence July 19, 2016
Panel moderator, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Moderator
● Magnum Foundation Photography Expanded Co-Laboratory October 20, 2016
Roundtable moderator, The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University School of Journalism
● Writing Religion Online: Scholars & Journalists in Conversation November 20, 2016
Organizer and panel moderator, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
● Dire States: A Live Podcast Recording and State of the Union Watch Party January 30, 2017
Moderator, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
● Writing About Religion Online: Making Scholarship Public October 15, 2018
Invited presenter for faculty and graduate students, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
 Kali Handelman
www.kalihandelman.com || kali.handelman@gmail.com

Education
● M.A. Columbia University 2010-2013
Faculty Fellow in the Department of Religion, specializing in Philosophy of Religion; Teaching Fellow for four
undergraduate courses; Graduate Affiliate of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and Graduate
Fellow at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies
● B.A. Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 2003-2009
Concentration in Cultural and Media Studies; Senior Academic Award; Dean’s List.

Skills

● Languages: Moderate proficiency in French, basic Hebrew

● Software and Systems: Microsoft Word and Excel, WordPress, Pages, Social Media (Tw