Religion

African American Theological Ethics: A Reader, co-editor with Peter Paris, Westminster John Knox
Press (January 1, 2016).

“A Foundation of Thinking Religiously in Public: On Sharing Reason with African American
Thought.” Journal of Religion (submitted).

“Necropolitics in Black Theology and Black Power: On Liberation, Liberalism and Decoloniality.”
Harvard Theological Review (submitted).

“Humanizing Dialogue, Accrediting Evil: Commending Buber to Rorty.” American Journal of
Theology and Philosophy 39, no. 2 (May 2018).

“Interpreting a Conversation on Culture: Conditions for Revisitation of Black Theology’s Turn
to Birmingham.” Black Theology: An International Journal 15, no. 1 (February 2017).

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
“African American Religions, Re-narration and the 1619 Project.” Ecumenical Trends (December
2019).

“Black Theology” and “Richard Rorty.” A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion, Second Edition (New
York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).

“Politics of Democracy as Globalization of American Protestantism.” Transatlantic Roundtable
on Religion and Race (TRRR). Washington, DC (June, 2017 – Declined).

“’I Speak to God in Public’: Taking a Chance on Respectability.” Southeastern Commission for
the Study of Religion (SECSOR). Nashville, TN (March, 2017).

“What’s Left of Evasion after Gooding-Williams?: Critique in Service of Commitments.”
American Academy of Religion (AAR). San Antonio, TX (November, 2016). Proposal creator
for the following panel; ‘Figures, Debates, and Themes of Evasion: Engaging West's Neglected
Contribution to the Pragmatist Canon’.

“The Public Value of Dark Sayings and Dissidence.” Notre Dame/UChicago Graduate
Conference on Theology and Ethics. ‘Theology, Ethics and the Death of God.’ Chicago, IL
(October, 2016).

“Post-War to Pre-Civil Rights African American Religious Political Engagements.” Lecture for
Course in ‘African-American Religion.’ University of Louisville. (October, 2016).

“The Role of Evil in Religion.” Niagara Foundation. Chicago, IL (February, 2016).

“Evil as (a) Good: Public Theology, Public Conversation and a Language of Faith.” American
Academy of Religion (AAR). Atlanta, GA (November, 2015).

“The Public and Christian Political Realism: Towards Establishing Grounds for Holding
President Barack Obama Accountable.” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion
(SECSOR). Nashville, TN (March, 2015).

“Divine Evil, Divine Racism and Chance: Another Response to William R. Jones.” Race and
Religion Workshop. University of Chicago Divinity School (December, 2012).

Doctoral Fellow, The Forum for Theological Exploration (2011–2013)