Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D., is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also Director of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future (NCF) project and a Co-Investigator on “Repairing sociality, safeguarding democracy: Transatlantic North-South narratives and practices of deep equality (RSSD).”

Prof. Beaman's publications include Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion, co-edited with Ryan T. Cragun and Douglas Ezzy (De Gruyter, in press, 2025); Emerging Imaginaries: Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates, co-edited with Juan Marco Vaggione and Paula Montero (De Gruyter, forthcoming, 2025); The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse (Routledge, 2020); and Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Her current and engaged areas of research include nonreligion, human/non-human relationships, equality, law, and religious diversity.