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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Project: Sentimental Theologies: Sense, Sexuality, and the Romance of Black Redemption Learn More »

Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar Baylor University Project: Migrant God, Migrating People Learn More »

Jaisy A. Joseph Villanova University Project: On the Edges of Catholic Consciousness: Eastern Catholics in the United States Learn More »

Jamall A Calloway University of San Diego Project: The Fall of Man: Paradise, Black Theology and African American Literature Learn More »

Nikki Hoskins University of Scranton Project: Blackness Weathered: Decolonial Ethics for the Earth Learn More »

Martin Rodriguez Azusa Pacific University Project: The Relational Power of Latinx Leadership: A Praxis of Cultivating Multicultural Missional Churches Learn More »

Aizaiah Gregory Yong Claremont School of Theology Project: Trauma: Repairing Worlds Learn More »

Sergio M Gonzalez Marquette University Project: Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin Learn More »

Rachelle Renee Green Fordham University Project: Have Mercy: A Practical Theology of Mercy for Educating for Justice Learn More »

Filipe Maia Boston University School of Theology Project: A Political Theology of the Worthless: A Critique of Modern Axiology Learn More »

Oluwatomisin O. Oredein (optional) Project: Making a Human: A Theological Ethic of Care Learn More »

Horacio Vela University of the Incarnate Word Project: Paul after Empire: Contesting Scriptures, Rewriting America Learn More »

Melanie R. Hill Rutgers University, Newark Project: "Colored Women Sittin' on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music" Learn More »

Melissa Pagán Mount Saint Mary's University Project: Decolonial Geographies and Catholic Social Teaching Learn More »

Shively T.J. Smith Boston University Project: Interpreting Through Our Eyes and Reading from Our Pens: A History of 19th-Century African American Women Writers’ Practices of Biblical Interpretation Learn More »

Onaje Woodbine American University Project: Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World Learn More »

Erik Estrada Texas Christian University Project: Paul - Pelagius - Luther and the MCSBP Origins of Salvation by Faith Alone Learn More »

Helen Kim Emory Candler School of Theology Project: Sacred Allies: Cold War South Korea and the Rise of American Evangelicalism Learn More »

Melva Sampson Wake Forest University Project: Going Live!: Black Women's Proclamation in the Digital Age Learn More »

Darrius Hills Grinnell College Project: Reciprocal Imaginings: Theology, Relationality, and Black Male Identity Learn More »

Roberto Mata Santa Clara University Project: Coming out of Babylon: The Eschatological Migration of God's People in the Book of Revelation Learn More »

Gilberto A. Ruiz Saint Anselm College Project: Sacred Economy and Sacred Authority: Jesus and Temple Commerce in John 2:13-22 Learn More »

Zeyneb Sayilgan Virginia Theological Seminary Project: Islam and Immigration: Building a Resource for Christians to Minister to Muslim Refugees Learn More »

Lloyd Barba Amherst College Project: Fields of Faith: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California Learn More »

Erika Gault University of Arizona Project: A Digital Ethnography of Black Millennial Christianity Learn More »

Matthew L Potts Harvard Divinity School Project: Mourning for Forgiveness Learn More »

Lisa L Thompson Vanderbilt Divinity School Project: Preaching the Headlines Learn More »

Lisa Bowens Princeton Theological Seminary Project: African-American Pauline Hermeneutics: Reception and Transformation Learn More »

Jonathan Calvillo Candler School of Theology/ Emory University Project: The Saints of Santa Ana: Ethnic Membership and Religious Identities in the Barrio Learn More »

Daniel Castillo Loyola University Maryland Project: An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology Learn More »

Paul Kang-Kul Cho Wesley Theological Seminary Project: The Dead Give Life: Willingness to Die Learn More »

Devin P Singh Dartmouth College Project: Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West Learn More »

Maria T Davila Andover Newton Theological School Project: Living the Option for the Poor Learn More »

Lerone A. Martin Standford University Project: J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window: The F.B.I., Domestic Security, and American Religion Learn More »

Daniel Vaca Brown University Project: Book People: Commercial Media and the Spirit of Evangelicalism Learn More »

Courtney T Goto Boston University School of Theology Project: Taking on Practical Theology Learn More »

Hosffman Ospino Boston College Project: Brave New Parish: Cultural Diversity and Paradigm Shifts in Catholic Congregations Learn More »

Reggie Williams McCormick Theological Seminary Project: Harlem Renaissance Literature and Theology: Jesus and the Recovery of Humanity Learn More »

Neomi De Anda University of Dayton Project: A Theology of Breast Milk: A Latina Perspective Learn More »

Néstor Medina Emmanuel College Project: Humanity, Culture, and the Spirit Learn More »

Socorro Castañeda-Liles Aspira Consulting Project: Guadalupe Across Generations: Catholic Devotionalism, body politics, and lived religion among U.S. Mexican women Learn More »

Josef Sorett Columbia University Project: Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics Learn More »

Judith S. Casselberry Bowdoin College Project: Justified by Works: Gender, Faith, and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism Learn More »

Gregory C. Ellison Emory University, Candler School of Theology Project: The Silent Fraternity: Minority Male Traumas and the Mystical Power of Silence Learn More »

Herbert R. Marbury Vanderbilt Divinity Project: Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of African American Biblical Interpretation Learn More »

Adam L. Bond Ebenezer Baptist Church Project: Revivalists and Educators: Black Baptist Preachers and the Salvation of America, 1920-1970 Learn More »

Teresa Delgado Iona College Project: Loving Sex Latina/menta: Envisioning a Relevant Catholic Sexual Ethic Learn More »

Chanequa J. Walker-Barnes Mercer University, McAfee School of Theology Project: Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength Learn More »

Andrea C. White Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York Project: Black Women's Bodies and God Politics: A Womanist Theological Anthropology Learn More »

Derek Hicks Wake Forest University School of Divinity Project: Recalibrating Life: Race, Identity, & Healing in Black Religious Experience Learn More »

Felipe Hinojosa Texas A&M University Project: Los Aleluyas: Faith, Activism, and Identity Among Latino/a Mennonites Learn More »

LaReine-Marie V. Mosely Loyola University Chicago Project: Toward a Sankofa Soteriology: African American Women and Christian Salvation Learn More »

Sharon M. Tan United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities Project: Complex Integrity: An Approach to Moral Agency from Asian American Perspective Learn More »

Kenyatta R. Gilbert Howard University Project: Cry Out!: Prophetic Word and African American Preaching Learn More »

LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant Wake Forest University Project: "Ah Tulk to de Dead all de Time": Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women Learn More »

Sharon Shin Kim California State University, Fullerton Project: A Faith of Our Own: The Creation of Hybrid Korean American Churches Learn More »

Daniel Ramirez Claremont Graduate University Project: Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S. and Mexico, 1906-1966 Learn More »

Curtis Junius Evans University of Chicago Project: The Burden of Black Religion Learn More »

Nancy Pineda-Madrid Boston College Project: Suffering and Redemption Reconsidered: A Latina Feminist Theological Reading Learn More »

Frederick L. Ware Howard University School of Divinity Project: Black Religion and American Culture: Racial Consciousness and the Quest for Human Fulfillment Learn More »

Edward Jerome Robinson Abilene Christian University Project: Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of African-American Churches of Christ in the South, 1914-1968 Learn More »

Marcia Colleen Robinson Syracuse University Project: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854-1856 Learn More »

Gastón E. Espinosa Claremont McKenna College Project: Brown Moses: Francisco Olazabal and Latino Pentecostal Charisma, Power, and Faith Healing in the Borderlands Learn More »

Rubén Rosario-Rodríguez Saint Louis University Project: Racism and God-Talk: Toward a Transcultural Theology Learn More »

Jonathan Y. Tan Case Western Reserve University Project: Introducing Asian American Theologies Learn More »

J. Kameron Carter University of California - Irvine Project: Singing in a Strange Land: Religion and the Black Intellectual Imagination, 1896-1940 Learn More »

Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado The University of Scranton Project: Theology in a Cuban-American Key: A Collaboration Between Latino/a and Black Theologies Learn More »

Fenggang Yang Purdue University Project: Independence and Integration: Chinese Christian Churches in America Learn More »

Anthea D. Butler University of Pennsylvania Project: Making a Sanctified World: Women in the Church of God in Christ Learn More »

David Cortés-Fuentes San Francisco Theological Seminary/Southern California Project: Race, Class, Gender and Community in Matthew: A Hispanic/Latino Reading Learn More »

Clarence Earl Hardy Yale Divinity School Project: We Grappled for the Mysteries: Black God-Talk in Modern America Learn More »