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Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones Boston College See No Evil: Technology, Violence, and a Theology of Black Being Learn More »
Jared E. Alcántara George W. Truett Theological Seminary Joseph H. Jackson: Enigmatic Leader, Dynamic Preacher, Cautionary Tale Learn More »
Peter Joseph Casarella Duke Divinity The Spirit of the People: A Latinx, Ecumenical Pneumatology Learn More »
Jennifer Allen Craft Point University Sins of Place: Christian Theology and the Practices of Placemaking Learn More »
Courtney T Goto Boston University School of Theology Relating Across Race: From Reacting to Acting to Relating Learn More »
Christine Jean Hong Columbia Theological Seminary The Stories We Never Tell: Orature with AAPI Women in the Church Learn More »
Janna L. Hunter-Bowman Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Beyond sanctuary: new orientations for church support of immigrant communities Learn More »
Emmanuel Katongole University of Notre Dame Sowing Hope: Integral Ecology and Theological Peacebuilding Learn More »
Eunjoo Mary Kim Vanderbilt University Divinity School Preaching Jesus: Postcolonial Approaches Learn More »
Dawne Moon Marquette University Living in the Tension: What the Conservative Protestant LGBT+ Movement Teaches Us About Toxic Shame, Love, and Justice Learn More »
Roger S. Nam Candler School of Theology The Economics of Diaspora Learn More »
Andrea L. Turpin Baylor University A Debate of Their Own: Women in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Learn More »
Kim Marie Vaz-Deville Xavier University of Louisiana Masked in Mardi Gras: The Sacred Visual Art of African American New Orleans Carnival Learn More »
Anne Marie Wolf University of Maine - Farmington Learning about Peace from the Middle Ages: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Insights Learn More »
Paul Kang-Kul Cho Wesley Theological Seminary Horror We Know: Tradition, Trauma, and Transformation in the Book of Job Learn More »
Lisa E. Dahill California Lutheran University Rewilding Life Together: Bonhoeffer, Spirituality, and Interspecies Community Learn More »
Jeannine Hill Fletcher Fordham University Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Reparation Learn More »
Jane Hong Occidental College Model Christians, Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Politics in the Transformation of U.S. Evangelicalism Learn More »
Theresa Keeley University of Louisville Suffer Little Children: Health, Harm, & U.S. Foreign Policy Learn More »
David Manuel Lantigua University of Notre Dame The Earth is the Lord's: Mammon and Popular Social Catholicism in the Global Age of Pope Francis Learn More »
Jacqueline J. Lewis Middle Collegiate Church Repairing the Breach: An ethnographic study of Black Folks Religion, its role in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 20th Century, and how it might dismantle white nationalism in the Church today Learn More »
Luis Menéndez-Antuña Boston University New Testament Studies After the Cultural Turn. Thinking Biblical Literature in the Midst of Global Crises Learn More »
Timothy James Sandoval Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University Tobit's Dog and Qohelet's Dinner: Satire, Identity, and Justice in Hellenistic Epoch Jewish Texts Learn More »
Angela Tarango Trinity University Los Hijos de Juan y Carlos Wesley: Tejano Methodism, Material Culture, and the Creation of a Tejano Methodist Identity at San Antonio’s La Trinidad United Methodist Church. Learn More »
Ralph Basui Watkins Columbia Theological Seminary The African American Church Seeing Hope in the Rainbow: A Year in the life of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Learn More »
Deanna Ferree Womack Candler School of Theology at Emory University Imaging Islam: Gender, Race, and American Protestant Encounters with Muslims Learn More »
Daniel Castillo Loyola University Maryland "I Have Seen": God-Talk and Christian Praxis in the Anthropocene Learn More »
Emily Clark Gonzaga University American Spiritualism and Material Culture Learn More »
John T Fitzgerald University of Notre Dame Jesus' Last Will and Testament: Friendship, Wills, and the Fourth Gospel Learn More »
Melissa Guzman San Francisco State University Redemption and Rehabilitation in Latino Pentecostal Street Ministries Learn More »
Grace Ji-Sun Kim Earlham School of Religion Reverend Jesse Jackson: A Theological Journey Learn More »
Andrew Manis Middle Georgia State University "Outside Agitator" Times Two: Father Soterios Gouvellis and the Greek-American Community during Birmingham's Civil Rights Struggle Learn More »
Joseph A Marchal Ball State University Assembling Affects: From Disgust to Solidarity After Paul’s Letters Learn More »
Leonard McKinnis University of Illinois Divine Blackness: Christian Imagination in Overcoming Racism Learn More »
Michael J. McVicar Florida State University God’s Watchers: Surveillance and Religion in the United States from the Civil War to the Cold War Learn More »
Katherine D. Moran Saint Louis University California Magdalens: Catholicism, the State, and the History of Women’s Incarceration, 1850-1940 Learn More »
Michelle Nickerson Loyola University Chicago Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial Learn More »
Luis R Rivera Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary The Journey and Legacy of US Protestant Latinx Theological Movement Learn More »
Paul Scherz The Catholic University of America Risk, Virtue, and Theology Learn More »
Jonathan Y. Tan Case Western Reserve University Beyond Model Minority, Privilege, and Power: Rethinking and Transforming Asian American Theologies Learn More »
David Harrington Watt Haverford College Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers' Responses to the Holocaust, 1933-1945 Learn More »
Todd David Whitmore University of Notre Dame Christianity and the Opioid Crisis: Race, Class, and Moral Sorting in America Learn More »
Ruth Braunstein Johns Hopkins University Religion, Taxpaying, and the Contested Meaning of Political Community in the U.S. Learn More »
Laurie Brink Catholic Theological Union Redeeming Jesus: The Role of Scripture in the New Cosmology Learn More »
Elizabeth W. Corrie Emory University, Candler School of Theology Youth Ministry as Peace Education: Cultivating Faith that Overcomes Silence and Transforms Violence Learn More »
Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas Vanderbilt University Divinity School When the Good Life Goes Bad: The Seven Deadly Sins in the Trump Era Learn More »
Jennifer Harvey Drake University White Church at the Crossroads Learn More »
Davina C. Lopez Eckerd College American Women in Biblical Scholarship: History between Colleges & Churches Learn More »
Wes Markofski Carleton College Good News for the Common Good: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America Learn More »
Kelly Murphy Central Michigan University Open Your Hand to the Poor: How We Hear the Bible’s Many Voices Learn More »
Travis Proctor Wittenberg College Multispecies and Posthuman Perspectives on the Body of Jesus Learn More »
Katrina M Sanders The University of Iowa College of Education The Rise and Fall of Black Catholic Education in a Changing South, 1886-1976 Learn More »
Sunggu Yang George Fox University The New Art of Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the 21st Century Learn More »
Kristin Kobes Du Mez Calvin College “Journey of Faith: A Religious History of Hillary Rodham Clinton” Learn More »
Jennie Grillo University of Notre Dame Martyrdom, Idolatry, Liturgy: The Afterlives of the Apocryphal Daniel Learn More »
Ramon Gutierrez University of Chicago “The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in Colonial New Mexico, 1581-1680: Anti-Judaism on New Spain’s Frontier” Learn More »
Thomas John Lappas Nazareth College of Rochester The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Native American Communities in the United States, 1873-1933 Learn More »
Omar M. McRoberts University of Chicago BLACK PUBLIC RELIGION AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY: Influences of the State on the Churches from the New Deal Through Welfare Reform Learn More »
Carolyn Marie Medine University of Georgia The "Face of the Other" in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas and St. Clare of Assisi: Social Justice and the Racialized Other Learn More »
Albert G Miller Oberlin College Fundamentally Black Learn More »
Kristy Nabhan-Warren University of Iowa Cornbelt Catholicism: Brown, White and Religious in the Heartland Learn More »
Quincy D. Newell Hamilton College Marginal Mormons: African Americans and Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Learn More »
Robert Chao Romero UCLA The "Brown Church": Towards a Latina/o Christian Social Justice History and Identity Learn More »
Felicia Song Westmont College Digital Discontent: Radical Acts of Recovering Presence, Place and Human Flourishing Learn More »
Victor Thasiah California Lutheran University Christianity and Community Organizing Learn More »
Christopher Daniel Tirres DePaul University Mestizo/a Spiritualities across the Latino/a Americas: Spiritual-Philosophical Profiles Learn More »
Aana Marie Vigen Loyola University Chicago The Complicated Quest for a Healthy Baby: Christian Ethics in Conversation with Genetic Counselors & New Mothers from Underrepresented Communities Learn More »
Nancy deClaisse-Walford McAfee School of Theology Reading the Book of Psalms through the Lens of Humanity's Often Marginalized and Unheard Voices Learn More »

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