Ann Taves is Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UCSB. She is currently working with collaborators on several projects including situating Religious Studies under the wider rubric of Worldview Studies, developing and testing a cross-cultural Inventory of Non-Ordinary Experiences, and co-authoring a primer on "explanation" for scholars of religion and other humanists. In relation to this project, she is particularly interested in how people’s sense of who they are and where they are going changes in the context of migration and resettlement.