Niki Kasumi Clements

Niki Kasumi Clements is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor of Religion at Rice University (Houston, Texas). Clements researches Michel Foucault’s fascination with Christianity and ethics through his published works and the archives at the Bibliotheque nationale de France. Her first monograph, Sites of the Ascetic Self, engages the ethics of John Cassian (c. 360–c. 435) through Foucault’s interest in this late ancient ascetic as part of his genealogy of the desiring subject. Clements is at work on her second and third monographs, Chez Foucault: Foucault’s Histories of Sexuality and Foucault the Confessor, focusing on Foucault’s textual and conceptual shifts over his last decade.