Stephanie Brehm is an administrator-scholar at Northwestern University. She is currently the Assistant Director for Academic and Strategic Initiatives in The Graduate School. A PhD alumna of Northwestern’s Religious Studies Department, she is also an instructor in the School of Education and Social Policy’s Master of Science in Higher Education Administration and Policy program and associate chair at Hobart, the Women’s Residential College. Her academic work uses ethnographic and media studies methods to explore the intersection of entertainment, mass media, and religion in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American society. Her book, America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century, was published by Fordham University Press in September 2019.