Faculty Partners
John Boles
Department of History: William P. Hobby Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: U.S. South, American religion
Elias Bongmba
Department of Religion: Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology; Professor of Religion, Faculty Assoc. Wiess College; Department Chair, Religion
Research Areas: Global Christianity, African and African Diaspora Religions; African Christianity/Theology Hermeneutics and Theology; Contemporary Theology and Ethics. Secondary: 19th Century Theology and Philosophy of Religion, African Studies; Philosophy/Ethics
Alexander Byrd
Department of History: Associate Professor
Research Areas: Atlantic World, African Diaspora, U.S. African American
Niki Kasumi Clements
Department of Religion: Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Assistant Professor of Religion, Allison Sarofim Assistant Professor of Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Department of Religion
Research Areas: Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; Michel Foucault; Christianity in Late Antiquity; Asceticism and Mysticism in Mediterranean Thought and Practice; Theories & Methods in the Study of Religion; Religion and Science; Religion, Medicine, and Mental Health
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Department of Sociology: Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology
Graduate Program Director
Director, Religion and Public Life Program
Research Areas: Religion, science, immigration, race, gender and culture
Caleb McDaniel
Department of History: Department Chair; Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities; Professor of History
Research Areas: Research Areas: Nineteenth-Century U.S., Slavery and Emancipation, American Civil War Era, Abolitionism; Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History, Transnational History
Anthony B. Pinn
Department of Religion: Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion, School of Humanities; Director, Center for African and African American Studies
Research Areas: Liberation theologies, Religion and Popular culture (e.g., hip hop), Humanism, Constructive theology, African American religious traditions, African American religious thought
James Sidbury
Department of History: Professor; Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities
Research Areas: Early American history, Atlantic history, Southern history, History of race and slavery, Native American history
Nicole Waligoria-Davis
Department of English: Alan Dugald McKillop Associate Chair in English | Associate Chair, English Department
Research Areas: late-nineteenth and 20th century African American and American literary and cultural criticism, with a particular emphasis on black intellectual history, black internationalism, legal studies, critical race theory, and visual culture