The project is a collaboration between Marilyn J. Chiat, Ph.D. and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Ph.D. Marilyn J. Chiat is an Art Historian and independent scholar whose primary area of research is religious art and architecture, and in particular, the synagogue. Her Handbook of Synagogue Architecture (Brown Judaica Series 29 [1983], 2nd ed., 2020), focuses on ancient synagogues in Roman and Byzantine Palestine. In addition she has written extensively on Jewish and Christian architecture in the United States, including America’s Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and The Spiritual Traveler: Chicago and Illinois (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2004).Jeanne Halgren Kilde is a cultural historian of religion in the United States, whose work focuses on religious architecture and space. She served as the Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota from 2008-2023, and she is the author of several works on religious architecture, including When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford 2002), Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture (Oxford 2008), and Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College (University of Minnesota, 2010). She also edited The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space (Oxford 2022). Research assistance has been provided by University of Minnesota graduate students Anduin Wilhide, Jeffrey Kerzner, Molly McDonald, Jessie Merriam, and Jade Ryerson.Undergraduate research assistance was provided by University of Minnesota UROP awardee Benjamin Hulett and the following UMN CLA Dean's Freshman Research and Creative Scholars awardees: Jennifer Phillips and Joseph Meinholz (Spring 2016), Annika Heaps and Madeline Chamberlain (Spring 2017), Christina Craig (Spring 2018), Teagan Yedica and Griffin Buswell (Spring 2019), Aslee Addison (Spring 2020), Zuhaib Noor (Spring 2022), and Logan Campbell (Spring 2023).