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First Book Grant for Scholars of Color Awards
Amaryah Shaye Armstrong
Project:
Sentimental Theologies: Sense, Sexuality, and the Romance of Black Redemption
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Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Project:
Migrant God, Migrating People
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Jaisy A. Joseph
Project:
On the Edges of Catholic Consciousness: Eastern Catholics in the United States
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Jamall A Calloway
University of San Diego
Project:
The Fall of Man: Paradise, Black Theology and African American Literature
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Nikki Hoskins
University of Scranton
Project:
Blackness Weathered: Decolonial Ethics for the Earth
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Martin Rodriguez
Azusa Pacific University
Project:
The Relational Power of Latinx Leadership: A Praxis of Cultivating Multicultural Missional Churches
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Aizaiah Gregory Yong
Claremont School of Theology
Project:
Trauma: Repairing Worlds
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Sergio M Gonzalez
Marquette University
Project:
Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin
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Rachelle Renee Green
Fordham University
Project:
Have Mercy: A Practical Theology of Mercy for Educating for Justice
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Filipe Maia
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
A Political Theology of the Worthless: A Critique of Modern Axiology
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Oluwatomisin O. Oredein
Brite Divinity School
Project:
Making a Human: A Theological Ethic of Care
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Horacio Vela
University of the Incarnate Word
Project:
Paul after Empire: Contesting Scriptures, Rewriting America
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Melanie R. Hill
Rutgers University, Newark
Project:
"Colored Women Sittin' on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music"
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Melissa Pagán
Mount Saint Mary's University
Project:
Decolonial Geographies and Catholic Social Teaching
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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
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Onaje Woodbine
American University
Project:
Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World
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Erik Estrada
Texas Christian University
Project:
Paul - Pelagius - Luther and the MCSBP Origins of Salvation by Faith Alone
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Helen Kim
Emory Candler School of Theology
Project:
Sacred Allies: Cold War South Korea and the Rise of American Evangelicalism
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Melva Sampson
Wake Forest University
Project:
Going Live!: Black Women's Proclamation in the Digital Age
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Darrius Hills
Morgan State University
Project:
Reciprocal Imaginings: Theology, Relationality, and Black Male Identity
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Roberto Mata
Santa Clara University
Project:
Coming out of Babylon: The Eschatological Migration of God's People in the Book of Revelation
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Gilberto A. Ruiz
Honorary
Project:
Sacred Economy and Sacred Authority: Jesus and Temple Commerce in John 2:13-22
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Zeyneb Sayilgan
Virginia Theological Seminary
Project:
Islam and Immigration: Building a Resource for Christians to Minister to Muslim Refugees
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Lloyd Barba
Amherst College
Project:
Fields of Faith: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California
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Erika Gault
University of Arizona
Project:
A Digital Ethnography of Black Millennial Christianity
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Matthew L Potts
Harvard Divinity School
Project:
Mourning for Forgiveness
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Lisa L Thompson
Union Theological Seminary in NYC
Project:
Preaching the Headlines
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Lisa Bowens
Princeton Theological Seminary
Project:
African-American Pauline Hermeneutics: Reception and Transformation
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Jonathan Calvillo
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
The Saints of Santa Ana: Ethnic Membership and Religious Identities in the Barrio
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Daniel Castillo
Loyola University Maryland
Project:
An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology
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Paul Kang-Kul Cho
Wesley Theological Seminary
Project:
The Dead Give Life: Willingness to Die
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Devin P Singh
Dartmouth College
Project:
Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West
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Maria T Davila
Andover Newton Theological School
Project:
Living the Option for the Poor
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Lerone A. Martin
Washington University in Saint Louis
Project:
J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window: The F.B.I., Domestic Security, and American Religion
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Daniel Vaca
Brown University
Project:
Book People: Commercial Media and the Spirit of Evangelicalism
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Courtney T Goto
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
Taking on Practical Theology
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Hosffman Ospino
Boston College
Project:
Brave New Parish: Cultural Diversity and Paradigm Shifts in Catholic Congregations
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Reggie Williams
McCormick Theological Seminary
Project:
Harlem Renaissance Literature and Theology: Jesus and the Recovery of Humanity
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Neomi De Anda
University of Dayton
Project:
A Theology of Breast Milk: A Latina Perspective
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Néstor Medina
Regent University School of Divinity
Project:
Humanity, Culture, and the Spirit
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Socorro Castañeda-Liles
Santa Clara University
Project:
Guadalupe Across Generations: Catholic Devotionalism, body politics, and lived religion among U.S. Mexican women
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Josef Sorett
Columbia University
Project:
Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
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Judith S. Casselberry
Bowdoin College
Project:
Justified by Works: Gender, Faith, and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism
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Gregory C. Ellison
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
Project:
The Silent Fraternity: Minority Male Traumas and the Mystical Power of Silence
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Herbert R. Marbury
Vanderbilt Divinity
Project:
Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of African American Biblical Interpretation
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Adam L. Bond
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology
Project:
Revivalists and Educators: Black Baptist Preachers and the Salvation of America, 1920-1970
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Teresa Delgado
Iona College
Project:
Loving Sex Latina/menta: Envisioning a Relevant Catholic Sexual Ethic
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Chanequa J. Walker-Barnes
Shaw University Divinity School
Project:
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
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Andrea C. White
Emory University Candler School of Theology
Project:
Black Women's Bodies and God Politics: A Womanist Theological Anthropology
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Derek Hicks
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Project:
Recalibrating Life: Race, Identity, & Healing in Black Religious Experience
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Felipe Hinojosa
Texas A&M University
Project:
Los Aleluyas: Faith, Activism, and Identity Among Latino/a Mennonites
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LaReine-Marie V. Mosely
Loyola University Chicago
Project:
Toward a Sankofa Soteriology: African American Women and Christian Salvation
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Sharon M. Tan
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Project:
Complex Integrity: An Approach to Moral Agency from Asian American Perspective
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Kenyatta R. Gilbert
Howard University School of Divinity
Project:
Cry Out!: Prophetic Word and African American Preaching
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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
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Sharon Shin Kim
California State University, Fullerton
Project:
A Faith of Our Own: The Creation of Hybrid Korean American Churches
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Daniel Ramirez
Arizona State University
Project:
Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S. and Mexico, 1906-1966
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Curtis Junius Evans
University of Chicago Divinity School
Project:
The Burden of Black Religion
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Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Boston College
Project:
Suffering and Redemption Reconsidered: A Latina Feminist Theological Reading
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Frederick L. Ware
Howard University
Project:
Black Religion and American Culture: Racial Consciousness and the Quest for Human Fulfillment
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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
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Marcia Colleen Robinson
Syracuse University
Project:
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854-1856
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Gastón E. Espinosa
Claremont McKenna College
Project:
Brown Moses: Francisco Olazabal and Latino Pentecostal Charisma, Power, and Faith Healing in the Borderlands
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Rubén Rosario-Rodríguez
Saint Louis University
Project:
Racism and God-Talk: Toward a Transcultural Theology
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Jonathan Y. Tan
Xavier University
Project:
Introducing Asian American Theologies
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J. Kameron Carter
Duke University Divinity School
Project:
Singing in a Strange Land: Religion and the Black Intellectual Imagination, 1896-1940
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Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado
Loyola Marymount University
Project:
Theology in a Cuban-American Key: A Collaboration Between Latino/a and Black Theologies
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Fenggang Yang
Purdue University
Project:
Independence and Integration: Chinese Christian Churches in America
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Anthea D. Butler
Loyola Marymount University
Project:
Making a Sanctified World: Women in the Church of God in Christ
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David Cortés-Fuentes
San Francisco Theological Seminary Southern California
Project:
Race, Class, Gender and Community in Matthew: A Hispanic/Latino Reading
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Clarence Earl Hardy
Dartmouth College
Project:
We Grappled for the Mysteries: Black God-Talk in Modern America
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