Curriculum Vitae

“Queering Our Leadership: Intersectional Justice after the 2020 Election,” November 2020.
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs.

“Complicated Truths: Integrating American Religion and Sexuality,”
Review of Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States edited by Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White, American Religion 1.2 (2020): 142-144.

“Training Progressives to Trust (Black) Women: An Argument for Becoming an Ally,”
Review of Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice, by Rebecca Todd Peters.
Syndicate Theology, May 2019.

Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christianity & Fractured American Politics by R. Marie Griffith.
New York: Basic Books, 2017.
Religious Studies Review 44 (December 2018): 451-452.

“We are Family: New Visions, Old Virtues, and Black Queer Ethics,”
Review of Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination by Nikki Young. Syndicate Theology,
September 2017.

“What’s in a Name? Exploring the Homophile Movement,”
Review of Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights by Heather White.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 56.2
(August 2017): 452-453

“Redemption or Salvation,”
Review of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence by Sarah Moslener and Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism by Deborah Lee.
Women’s Review of Books
September/October 2016

“Bodies: In the Flesh,”
Review of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon by Eboni Marshall Turman.
Syndicate Theology,
August 2016

Review of Womanism Against Socially-Constructed Matriarchal Images: A Theoretical Model Toward A Therapeutic Goal by MarKeva Gwendolyn Hill.
Black Theology: An International Journal 12.1
(April 2014): 82-83

Review Essay of Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Stanton, and Let My People Go! The Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Robert Walker.
Journal of African American History, 94
(2009): 92-96

“From Free to Freaks: Analyzing Juanita Bynum’s Dilemma of Holy and Ho”
February 2017

“Three Bodies, One Problem, Many Solutions.”
AAR Religious Studies News
March 2015

Review of Soul Murder and Slavery by Nell Irvin Painter. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

Review of “‘Without Pilot or Compass:’ Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South” by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Religion and the American Civil War. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

Review of “Marital and Sexual Norms Among Slave Women” by Herbert G. Gutman.
Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

Review of “Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex” by Darlene Clark Hine.
Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

Review of “Religion, Gender, and Identity: Black Methodist Women in a Slave Society, 1770 – 1810” by Cynthia Lynn Lyerly.
Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

Review of “When you Divide Body and Soul Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sex” by Michael Eric Dyson.
In Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

“Transgressive Storytelling: Queer Testimony as Salvation,” Invited Keynote Lecture, International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture, Chester, UK, rescheduled due to COVID,
September 2022.

“Black Lives Matter, Reproductive Justice, and the Moral Case for Trusting Black Women,”
Invited Belk Lecture, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA
April 2021

“Trusting Black Women: Reproductive Justice as Black Liberation,”
Invited Lecture for the Center for the Study of Religion, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
February 2021

“Leading from the Margins: Authenticity, Authority, and Black Women’s Sexual Agency,”
Invited Lecture for the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
October 2020.

“Hidden Histories: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism,”
Invited Lecture for the Department of Religion, Boston University, Boston, MA
April 2020. Unable to deliver because of COVID-19 travel ban.

“Hidden Histories: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism,”
Invited Lecture for the Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
March 2020

Passionate and Pious book talk. Thurman Thursday Table-Talk.
Invited Lecture at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
February 2020. Unable to deliver because of COVID-19 travel ban.

“Call-Out Culture and What to do with Our Memorials: Investigating the Legacy of Margaret Sanger.”
Invited Presentation for the Committee on Campus Recognition and Memorialization, Chatham University, Pittsburg, PA
August 2019

“Doing the Work Your Soul Must Have: Womanist Ethnography as a Calling.”
Invited Lecture at This is My Calling: Womanist Ethnography and Black Women’s Vocation Conference, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
November 2018

“Justice is Spiritual: Interrogating Spiritual Activism in Black Lesbian Religious Leadership.” Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Invited Lecture at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
October 2018

“Overcoming the Impact of Bad Theology on Sexual Decision-Making.”
Invited Lecture at Holy Callings Faith Leaders Summit: Advancing Reproductive Health and LGBTQ Justice, Columbus, OH
May 2018

“Women and Sexual Violence in Black Churches.”
Invited Lecture at American Baptist College, Nashville, TN
March 2018

“Oh God! The Revelation of Pleasure as Revolution.”
Invited Lecture at the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality 20th Anniversary Conference at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
April 2016

“Muddy Authenticity: Confessional Leadership Models.”
Invited Lecture at the Faith and Life Forum, Harvard University Memorial Church, Cambridge, MA
March 2015

“That Their Living Will Not Be in Vain: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism,”
Invited Lecture for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
February 2013

“Black Women and Sexuality.”
Invited Lecture given at Deeper Shades of Purple Conference and Black Church Summit, New York City, NY
March 2012

“Between the Horny and Holy: Womanist Sexual Ethics,”
Invited Lecture for the African American Studies Lecture Series at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
November 2010

“Religion and Reproductive Ethics: Envisioning a New Dialogue,”
Panel Discussion, Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, IL
January 2023

“The Moral Case for Trusting Black Women’s Reproductive Choices,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion (Religion and Politics and Women and Religion Units), Denver, CO
November 2022

“15th Anniversary Book Panel on Dr. Anthea Butler’s Women in the Church of God in Christ,”
Panel Discussion, American Academy of Religion (Afro-American Religious History and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Units), Denver, CO
November 2022

“Telling the Truth about being Single not Celibate: A Womanist Model of Black Church Integrity in Response to HIV/AIDS,”
Paper presented at Morehouse College Convening of the 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity and Collegium of Scholars, Atlanta, GA
October 2022

“Preaching New Songs in Strange Digital Lands,”
Paper presented at the Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture, Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
June 2022. Presentation published as Seventh Biennial Conference Proceedings.


“Divine Institutions/Human Delusions,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion (Religion and the Social Sciences Unit), San Antonio, TX
November 2021

“Publishing with Passion,”
Panel Discussion, American Academy of Religion (Publications Committee), San Antonio, TX
November 2021

“Verzuz Panel: Womanism vs. Feminism,”
Panel Discussion, Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership 2021 Spring Virtual Conference
April 2021

“Property and Products: Reproductive Oppression of African Americans”
Presentation for Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Webinar
February 2021

“Connecting Research with Teaching,”
The Wabash Center Dialogue on Teaching, Episode 110
February 2021

“Constructing and Cultivating: Womanist Heritage and Legacy,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion, (Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and Religion and Sexuality Consultation), Boston, MA
December 2020

“Power, Empathy, and Belonging in Healthcare and Health Services Training,”
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC Board of Directors Retreat
November 2020

“Standing in Authenticity: Interpreting the Struggles and Power of Black Lesbian Religious Leaders,”
Paper presented at Oral History Association, Baltimore, MD
October 2020

“Black Women’s Faith and Sexuality,”
Freedom School, GSU Department of African-American Studies and Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta, GA
October 2020

“The Black Woman’s Struggle: The Intersection of Racism & Sexism,”
Panel Discussion, Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN
August 2020

“Womanism and Intersectional Movements,”
Women’s History Month Training for Chemonics, Washington, DC
March 2020

“Black Feminism and Womanism in the Religious Studies and Theological Academy,”
Invited Paper at the Harvard Divinity School, Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference, Cambridge, MA
February 2020

“Authors Meet Each Other: Religion and Sexuality in the Social Field,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion, (Anthropology of Religion Unit and Social Sciences Unit), San Diego, CA
November 2019

“But Some of Us Are Brave: After Care for Minoritized Scholars Taking Risks,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting (Status of Women in the Profession), San Diego, CA
November 2019

“In the Beginning Was the Word: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion”
Panel Discussion, Religious Communication Association, Baltimore, MD
November 2019

“Trusting Women: Analyzing Progressive Religious Responses to Anti-Abortion Legislation,”
Paper presented at Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, St. Louis, MO
October 2019

“Hush Harbors/Clarion Calls: Exploring Contemporary Black Lesbian Religious Leadership,”
Paper presented at Queer History Conference, San Francisco, CA
June 2019

“Training Progressives to Trust Black Women: An Argument for Becoming an Ally,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Women and Religion), Denver, CO
November 2018

“Womanist Ethnography, Sexuality, and Religious Media,”
Paper presented at the Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop
November 2018

“Standing In: Self-Determination, Power and Faith Activism of Black Lesbian Religious Leaders.”
Paper presented at Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Las Vegas, NV
October 2018

“All Babies Matter: Analyzing Debates of Reproductive Justice and Religious Media.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism), Boston, MA
November 2017

“How Sexuality Has Shaped Our Movement and Our Theology,”
Panel Discussion, Rolling the Stone Away: Generations of Love and Justice,” St. Louis, MO
October 2017

“From All Babies Matter to Black Lives Matter and Beyond: Engaging Media as Christian Ethicists.”
Invited Paper at the Society of Christian Ethics, New Orleans, LA
January 2017

“Mighty Causes are calling us: A Genealogy of Black Religion.”
Invited Paper at the Harvard Divinity School, Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference, Cambridge, MA
November 2016

“What’s in a Name? Exploring the Homophile Movement”
Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA
October 2016

“Life as a Scholar-Activist,”
Panel Discussion, Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality 20th Anniversary Conference at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
April 2016

“Good God/Good Sex: Sexual Ethics in Religious Reality TV.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Religion and Popular Culture), Atlanta, GA
November 2015

“Self-Determination as Resistance: Overcoming the Misery of the Stain-Glassed Ceiling.”
Paper presented at the American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada
October 2015

“Transformations in Spirituality: African American Queer Story-Telling as Moral Action,”
Paper presented at the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians, Philadelphia, PA
October 2015

“Tithing Sex/Pursuing Passion: Black Women’s Sexual Agency and Religious Media,”
Paper presented at the Conference of Ford Fellows, Washington, DC
September 2015

“Outsiders Within: Everyday Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism.”
Paper presented at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, GA
September 2015

“Three Bodies: One Problem, Many Solutions.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting (Status of Women in the Profession), San Diego, CA
November 2014

“Hidden Histories: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism.”
Paper presented at Whose Beloved Community? Black Civil and LGBT Rights Conference, Atlanta, GA
March 2014

“Teaching Black After Being Taught White.”
Invited paper at the Society of Christian Ethics, Seattle, WA
January 2014

“Personal Cost and the Personal Joy: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Women and Religion), Baltimore, MA
November 2013

“Draw the Circle Wide: Honest Conversations on and with LGBTQ Folk in Religious Communities.”
Panel Discussion and Workshop Leader for Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, TN
April 2012

“Interrogating Holy Bodies: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Religious Media.”
Paper presented at the Society of Christian Ethics, Washington, DC
January 2012

“Don’t Ask Until I Tell: Leadership Through Sexual Confession.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Ethics), San Francisco, CA
November 2011

“Our Faith, Our Families, Our Communities: Building a Brighter Future for our Youth.”
Panel Discussion for Human Rights Campaign, Nashville, TN
October 2011

“The Black Church and Women’s Sexual Agency,”
Invited presentation given at Genderations Luncheon at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
March 2011

“Passionate and the Pious: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Black Women’s Sexual Decision-Making,”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and Religion and Sexuality Consultation), Atlanta, GA
October 2010

“Interrogating the Passionate and Pious,”
Arcus Foundation Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches, New York, NY
June 2010

“Televangelism and Black Women’s Sexuality: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Religious Media.”
Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA
March 2010

“Black Victorias and the Politics of Respectability: Black Women’s Activism in the Late Victorian Era.”
Paper presented at New Perspectives on African American History and Culture, Chapel Hill, NC
February 2010

“God between the Sheets: The Black Church and Black Women’s Sexuality.”
Paper presented at Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latino/a Sexualities, Chicago, IL
April 2008

“Subversive/subjective Experiences: African American Women and Islam.”
Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA
March 2008

“Black Sexuality in Religious Media.”
Facilitator for Sexuality and Black Churches Consultation, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
February 2008

“Its Crowded Under Here: Between the Sheets, the Black Church and Women’s Sexuality.”
Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Religion and Sexuality Consultation), San Diego, CA
November 2007

“Between Whose Sheets? The Black Church and Black Women’s Sexuality.”
Paper presented at Souls a Fire Conference for the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies in Religion and Ministry, Philadelphia, PA
April 2007

“Hagar’s Legacy: Living to See God in the Faces of Latin American Women.”
Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Nashville, TN
March 2007

“‘From Womanist Thought to Womanist Action:’ The Black Church and Black Women’s Sexuality.”
Paper presented at The Society of Christian Ethics, Dallas, TX
January 2007

“Womanist Scholarship and the Next Generation.”
Paper presented at the Womanist Consultation, American Academy of Religion Meeting, Washington, D.C.
November 2006

“Between the Sheets: The Black Church and Black Women’s Sexuality.”
Paper presented at Sisters of African Descent: Connecting Spirituality, Religion, and Vocation, Atlanta, GA
September 2006

“In the World to Come God will Sign: Challenges to Feminist Theologies of Embodiment and Wholeness and a Model of Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities.”
Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA
March 2006

“Introduction to Islam,”
Lecture given at Congregation Ohabai Sholom, Nashville, TN
January 2007 and March 2006

“Representing Women of Color in the Struggle for Reproductive Justice.”
Paper presented at Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Greenville, NC
April 2005

“Connecting Religion, Sexuality, and Culture: The Black Church and Sexual Ethics.”
Ford Foundation Seminar, New York, NY
March 2005

“Redemptive Resistance: The Black Church’s Response to HIV/AIDS.”
Paper presented at SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health & Sexual Rights National Conference, Atlanta, GA
November 2003

“Academics and Activism: The Intersection of Feminist Sexual Ethics and Reproductive Rights.”
Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom Leadership Training, Washington, DC
August 2003

“Creating Sexual Ethics Based on Mutuality, Consent, and Pleasure.”
Ford Foundation Seminar, New York, NY
June 2003

“Constructing Sexuality.”
Race, Culture, and Diversity Symposium on Sexuality, Panel discussion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
May 2003

“Slavery, Religion, and Women.”
Panel Discussion at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
March 2003

• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Peer Mentoring Grant, August 2022 – August 2023
  ($10,000)
• Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Sankofa Scholar, January 2022
• Henry Luce Foundation Grant, Advancing Public Knowledge on Race, Justice, and Religion in America, November 2021
  ($250,000)
• Jack Shand Research Grant, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, July 2021
  ($4,000)
• RISE Seed Grant, Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, July 2021
  (Co-PI on grant, $21,300)
• Columbia University Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, & Social Justice Rapid Response Grants Program, November 2020
  ($2,500)
• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Digital Salon Grant for Mid-Career African American Faculty, 2020 – 2021
  ($10,000)
• GSU Research Intensive Semester Fall 2020 (Rescinded due to budget cuts/Reinstated January 2022)
• Harvard Divinity School, Women’s Studies in Religion Research Associate, 2019 – 2020
  ($60,000)
• GSU Research Intensive Semester award for 2019 – 2020 (Declined)
• Morehouse College, Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars, Inducted April 2019
• American Academy of Religion, Individual Research Grant, 2018 – 2019
  ($4,375)
• GSU Humanities Research Center Fellow, Spring 2018
  ($1,000)
• GSU College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Early Career Award, 2016 – 2017
  ($3,000)
• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Summer Grant, 2016
  ($5,000)
• Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, January 2016
• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty of African Descent, 2015 – 2016
  ($3,400)
• Ford Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA August 2014 – August 2015
  ($40,000)
• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities, 2014 – 2015 (Declined)
• Cross Currents Coolidge Scholars Summer Colloquium, July 2014
• Oral History Institute Participant, Kenyon College, June 2013
• Major Impact Alumni, Duke University, April 2012
• Safe Zone Ally, Western Kentucky University, November 2011
• Fund for Theological Education Fellow/Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop Participant, March 25-27, 2010.
• Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Fellowship, 2009 – 2010
• Emory University Religion and Sexuality Research Seminar Participant, June 2009
• Fund for Theological Education Dissertation Fellow, 2008 – 2009
• Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2008
• CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, College of St. Rose, 2008 (Declined)
• Vanderbilt University Bettye R. Ford Graduate Student Service Award, 2008
• Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics Dissertation Writers Group, 2008
• Provost’s Graduate Fellowship, 2003 – 2008
• Roothbert Fund Fellowship, 2003 – 08
• Roothbert Fund Student Board Member, 2004 – 2006
• Susan Ford Wiltshire Women and Gender Studies’ Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2006
• Fund for Theological Education Expanding Horizons Doctoral Fellow, 2003 – 2005
• Duke University Leadership in Aging Gabel Intern, 1999
• Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society 1999

July 2018 — Present
Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Affiliate Faculty in Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

August 2012 — July 2018
Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Designed syllabi and taught courses entitled Religion, Race, and Nation, Theories and
Methods in Religious Studies, African American Religion, and Religion and American Public Life, Pro-Seminar in Advanced Theory and Method, Religion and Sexuality in Pop Culture,
Introduction to World Religions, and Comparative Religious Traditions, Gender, and Sexuality; Religion in the American South, Womanism and Social Change

January 2022 — February 2022
Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Sankofa Scholar, Atlanta, GA
Designed syllabi and taught “If It Wasn’t for the Women:” Womanist Spiritual Activists as Black Church Change Agents

August 2019 — June 2020
Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Designed syllabus and taught course entitled Leadership and Womanist Moral Traditions

Doctoral Dissertations—Committee Member
Ashlyn Crozier, “A Womanist Theology of Reproductive Choice,” (August 2021) Women’s Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Nicole Symmonds, “Trafficking in God: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Evangelical Anti-Trafficking Intervention,” (August 2021) Emory University

MA Theses Directed
Rubén Villegas, “Myth Making and the American Dream,” (May 2022)
Melvin Douglas, “Rastafari: A Method of Modern Marronage” (August 2021)
Catherine Moore, “Affirming Theologies and Transgender Refugees and Asylum Seekers” (April 2020)
Monique Tibbs, “I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: A History of Transgender Identity and What it Means for Progressive Christianity” (May 2017)
Joy Spann, “Civil Rights and the Theology of Atonement,” (December 2016)
Ed van Herik, “Moral Injury on the Home Front: Can a New Approach Provide Fresh Insight into Spirituality and Alcoholism?,” (December 2015)
Karli Robinson-Myers, “Sankofa Healing: A Womanist Analysis of the Retrieval and Transformation of African Ritual Dance,” (May 2015)

MA Theses Committee Member
Egbal Almahatwary, “The Role of Arabic Grammar in Tafsīr: An Analysis of I‘rāb al-Jumal in Mughnī al-Labīb and al-Kashshāf,” (May 2022)
Sabina Ali, “Jewish Racialization, the ‘Jewish Gene,’ and the Perpetuation of Ashkenormativity in Popular Genetic Ancestry Services in the United States,” (May 2020)
Brandon Render, “The Slaves’ Devil: The Parallel between Experiences of Slavery and Christian Conversion” (May 2017)
Natalie Barber, “The Way They Never Were: Nationalism, Landscape, and Myth in Irish Identity Construction,” (April 2014)
Shauntia Lovett, “Maternal Ministry, Other Mothering, and Finding Power for Women in the Black Church: A Phenomenological Exploration,” (April 2014)

August 2010 — July 2012
Visiting Minority Fellow, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Designed syllabi and taught courses entitled The African American Experience, Religion in the
South, and Passionate and Pious: Interrogating Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Religious Media,
Introduction to Religious Studies; Religion in Contemporary America; Islam in the African
Diaspora

June 2008 — May 2012
Adjunct Professor, American Baptist College, Nashville, TN
Designed syllabus and taught courses entitled Black Church and Social Reform, Theologies of
Liberation, and Ethics in Pastoral Therapy

August 2008 — May 2009
Master Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

April 2002 — October 2006
Feminist Sexual Ethics Project Research Analyst, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Collected and analyzed research on contemporary stereotypes of black women’s sexuality
Gathered data on slavery in early antiquity for comparison with contemporary American slavery

January 2002 — May 2002
Instructor for Harvard University Reading and Research, Cambridge, MA
Supervised undergraduate reading and research topics involving sexuality, HIV/AIDS, lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender issues

September 2001 — January 2002
W.E. B. Du Bois Institute Research Assistant, Cambridge, MA

National Institutes of Health Consultant, Bethesda, MD 01/13-Present
Developed content for NIH Safe Zone Training and Facilitator Manuals
Facilitated Safe Zone Trainings at NIH
Created content focused on transgender /intersex community needs for Transgender NIH Training
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Religious Archives Network Consultant, Berkeley, CA 04/10-Present
Identified and interviewed black LGBT persons for oral history project
Produced articles for LGBT-RAN website
Performed archival work with an emphasis on black LGBT religious communities
Ford Foundation Sexuality and Religion Consultant, New York, NY 05/06-08/07
Analyzed Ford Foundation grant making on sexuality and religion
Interviewed Program Officers and grantees to identify the connections of sexuality and religion
Produced final report to inform future Foundation grant making

Women’s Studies in Religion Program Assistant to the Director, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 08/02-08/03
Managed Women’s Studies in Religion Program office
Faculty assistant for five Visiting Faculty
Assistant Administrator of Women’s Studies in Religion Program fellowships

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Office Assistant, Cambridge, MA 09/00-08/02

Georgia State University, University Senate, Faculty Senator
September 2021 – April 2022

Georgia State University, College of Arts & Sciences, Faculty Awards Standing Committee
August 2020 – Present

Georgia State University, Humanities Inclusivity Program Mentor
June 2020 – Present

Georgia State University, College of Arts & Sciences, Associate Deans Search Committee
February 2017 – April 2017

Georgia State University, Honors College Faculty Associate
November 2013 – Present

Georgia State University, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Religious Studies
January 2018 – Present

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Curriculum Committee Member/Chair
August 2017 – Present

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department CTW Ambassador
May 2014 – May 2016

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Tenure Track/Lecturer Search Committee
August 2013  – March 2014; November 2017 – April 2018; August 2019 – March 2020

NTT Search Chair
January 2021 – May 2021;

TT Search Chair
September 2021 – February 2022

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Executive Committee
August 2012 – April 2014; August 2016 – June 2022

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Scribe
August 2012 – August 2014; September 2017 – August 2018

Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Program Committee/Chair
August 2012 – May 2013; August 2015 – April 2018; August 2022 – Present

Vanderbilt University Search Committee Member for GLBT Director
April 2008 – June 2008

Graduate Student Council Representative
August 2007 – May 2010

Harvard Divinity School Alumni of African Descent Recruitment/Retention Chairperson
August 2006 – June 2008

Vanderbilt Divinity School Professorial Search Committee Student Representative
January 2007 – March 2007; January 2004 – May 2004

Duke University Alumni Admissions Recruiter, Nashville, TN
September 2003 – Present

Harvard Divinity School Professorial Search Committee Student Representative
September 2001 – June 2002

Series Editor, T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics
November 2021 – Present

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Black Women and Religious Cultures
July 2021 – Present

Board Member, LGBTQ-RAN/
January 2022 – Present

Advisory Board Member, LGBTQ-RAN
July 2020 – December 2021

Editorial Board Member, Religions journal
October 2020 – Present

Feminist Studies in Religion Forum/CoLaboratory Co-Chair
March 2019 – Present

Editorial Board Member, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, Bloomsbury Publishing
July 2019 – Present

Roothbert Fund Scholarship Reviewer
March 2017 – Present

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Scholars Group
March 2016 – Present

Columbia University, Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice’s Content Development Working Group
September 2014 – June 2018

Article Reviewer, Religions, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology; Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Theology and Sexuality, Religion Compass
September 2014 – Present

Book Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan, Ohio State University, Duke University Press, University of Georgia Press, Routledge Press, New York University Press
May 2018 – Present

Media Contributions, Aib TV; Bounce TV—ABC 27 News
June 2016; April 2013 – June 2013

American Academy of Religion Status of Women in the Profession Chair/Committee Member
January 2012 – January 2019

American Academy of Religion and Sexuality Group Co-Chair
November 2009 – December 2014

Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Black Cultures Co-Chair and Committee Member
May 2010 – April 2013

American Academy of Religion Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Committee Member
September 2005 – September 2011

Black Church Initiative Sexuality Education Facilitator, Boston, MA
September 2002 – June 2010

• American Academy of Religion
• Society of Christian Ethics
• Society for the Study of Black Religion
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Religious Communication Association
• American Studies Association
• Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
• National Women’s Studies Association
• Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History