Carrie Frederick Frost, PhD

Assistant Professor

About

Education

Ph.D. Religious Studies, University of Virginia

Carrie Frederick Frost is a scholar of modern Orthodox Christianity, who attends to matters of women and mothers, sacraments and practice, material culture, and contemplative prayer. She received a PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Culture from the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia, and she is the author of Church of Our Granddaughters (Cascade, 2023) and Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East (Paulist Press, 2019), and the editor of Chorus of Faith (Pickwick, 2025) and The Reception of the Holy and Great Council: Reflections of Orthodox Christian Women (GOARCH, 2018). She is also Book Reviews Editor for Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.   

  

Professor Frost teaches:  

REL 231 Introduction to the Study of Religion  

REL 233 Women & Religion   

REL 390 Comparative Contemplative Practices   

REL 390 Women, Ritual & Christianity   

HUMA 302 Method of Interdisciplinary Study Featuring Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset   

HUMA 390 Spirituality, Literature & the Wild   

REL 490 Comparing Holy Lives