SPIRIT HOUSE Sessions feature Crossroads Project Fellows in conversation with scholars in the field about their projects. This event highlights projects that mobilize new sources and identify new sites for narrating African American religious history.

Moderator: Mélena Laudig (Princeton University)

• Matthew Cressler, What Are You Going To Do?”: A Bad Catholics, Good Trouble© Webcomic
• Ahmad Greene-Hayes, To Tell Our Story: The Founding of Black Religious Studies and the Role of Its Founders
• Chandra Plowden, Standing up for “Good-Work”: A History of Working-Class Black Women’s Labor Ethics

November 11, 2024

Keynote Address:

Maurice Wallace (Rutgers University)

Panel 1:
“Gospel, Gender, Sexuality, and Swing: Boundaries of Black Sacred Sound”
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Alphonso F. Saville, IV (Princeton University)
Alisha Lola Jones (Cambridge University)
Vaughn A. Booker (Dartmouth College)

Panel 2:
“Black Performers and Personalities: Sacred Dimensions of Personhood through Black Sound”
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Alphonso F. Saville, IV (Princeton University)
Ralph H. Craig, III (Stanford University)
Ambre Dromgoole (Yale University)
James H. Hill, Jr. (University of Oklahoma)

June 2, 2023

Moderator:

Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton University)

Panelists:

Judith Casselberry (Bowdoin College)
N. Fadeke Castor (Northeastern University)
KB Dennis Meade (Northwestern University)
Eziaku Nwokocha (University of Miami)
Todne Thomas (Harvard University)

December 13, 2022

Tracey E. Hucks, Colgate University

Featuring a discussion with Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania), Lerone Martin (Stanford University), and Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton University).

March 19, 2022

Moderator:

Alphonso F. Saville, IV (Princeton University)

Panelists:

Ahmad Greene-Hayes (Northwestern University), Terrence Johnson (Georgetown University), Shively T. J. Smith (Boston University), and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh (Stanford University)

March 19, 2022