HEY I’M ADAM D. J. BRETT. I’M A RELIGION SCHOLAR, EDUCATOR, AND WEB DEVELOPER WORKING WITH UNITED LUTHERAN SEMINARY, THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW ALLIANCE, AND SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.

Adam DJ Brett is Visiting Professor for Digital Humanities and Indigenous Studies at United Lutheran Seminary, International Research Associate and Operations Manager at the American Indian Law Alliance, and an instructor at Syracuse University, where he also serves as Grant and Event Coordinator for the Henry Luce Foundation-funded Doctrine of Discovery Project in the Department of Religion. He earned his Ph.D. in Religion from Syracuse University in 2022. His research examines the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, Indigenous sovereignty, Christian nationalism, and the intersection of religion, law, and media in U.S. history. He is the author of Catastrophic Christianity: An Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940 (DTL Press, 2026) and co-author, with Betty Hill, of "Documenting Domination: From the Doctrine of Christian Discovery to Dominion Theology" (Religions, 2024). He is Associate Editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and serves on the steering committee of the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit of the American Academy of Religion.