Lucas Wilson received the Martha Ross Prize for his queer oral-history project that explored gay men’s experiences as students at Liberty University, with a focus on their time in the school’s conversion-therapy program. He presented this work at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in 2022. This project culminated in a book chapter, entitled “Guilt, Anxiety, and S(h)ame-Sex Attraction: The Affective Economies of Heteronormativity and Conversion ‘Therapy’ at Liberty University,” in American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three, edited by Cody Musselman, Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Michael J. Altman (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2024), pp. 123–145.
