Tanya Erzen

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Tanya Erzen [1] is an associate professor of Religion and Gender Queer Studies at the University of Puget Sound. She is also an author who has written four books [2] as well as articles about religion, sexuality, gender and American conservatism. Her book Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association and the Gustave O Arlt Award from American Anthropological Association. [2]

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Erzen received a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2002 and has a B.A. in American Civilization from Brown University (1995). [1] She lives in Seattle and is the executive director of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), a group providing college classes to women in Washington's prisons and raising awareness about issues educational access and incarceration. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Erzen, Tanya 1972– - Dictionary definition of Erzen, Tanya 1972– Encyclopedia.com online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Tanya Erzen · University of Puget Sound". www.pugetsound.edu.
  3. "Staff and Board of Directors – The Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS)" . Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. Pitchford, Leila (2017-06-09). "Facets of Faith: New book considers prison ministries in La., elsewhere". The Advocate. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  5. Drescher, Jack (2008). "Review of Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversion in the Ex-Gay Movement". Culture, Health & Sexuality. 10 (3): 309–311. ISSN   1369-1058.
  6. Linneman, Thomas J. (2007). "Book Review: Wolkomir, Michelle. (2006). Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-Gay Christian Men. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Erzen, Tanya. (2006). Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press" . Men and Masculinities. 10 (1): 123–126. doi:10.1177/1097184X06293996. ISSN   1097-184X.
  7. Griffith, R. Marie (2008). "Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. By Tanya Erzen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. x + 285 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper" . Church History. 77 (1): 225–228. doi:10.1017/S0009640708000425. ISSN   0009-6407.
  8. Cadge, W. (2008-06-01). "Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men By Michelle Wolkomir Rutgers University Press. 2006. 225 pages. $65 cloth, $23.95 paper and Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement By Tanya Erzen University of California Press. 2006. 282 pages. $50 cloth, $19.95 paper" . Social Forces. 86 (4): 1841–1843. doi:10.1353/sof.0.0058. ISSN   0037-7732.