Rate My Professor Jay Johnston

Throughout her career at the University of Sydney, Johnston advanced from Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor to Professor. She acted as Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP120102952 with Iain Gardner and Julia Kindt. Key publications include co-editing Animal Death (Sydney University Press, 2013) with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, exploring animal mortality across cultural, ethical, and philosophical dimensions. Other major works are Emplaced Belief: Heritage and Religion Reconsidered (Berghahn Books), Amulets in Magical Practice (Cambridge University Press), and peer-reviewed articles such as 'Animal spirit: other bodies in relation' (Religion, 2023), 'Stone-agency: sense, sight and magical efficacy in traditions of the image made stone' (2017), 'Things That Tell: An Object-Centered Methodology for Restorying Religious Heritage' (2022), and 'Binding Images' (International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2018). Her contributions extend to editorial roles and public engagement, influencing interdisciplinary dialogues in religion, ecology, heritage, and the arts through innovative approaches to subtle bodies, aesthetics of religion, and environmental humanities.