Peter Carlson is Associate Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University. A graduate of Claremont Graduate School and Wheaton College, and trained as a medievalist, they were a visiting fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, and the inaugural Scholar in Residence at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. They have presented to religious groups on Church history, sacred space, medieval manuscript culture, and the history of gender and marriage. Carlson lives with their husband in Camarillo, California.