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Dr. Dianne Stewart Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship

Posted onApril 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Dr. Dianne M. Stewart was awarded the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. This esteemed fellowship is a recognition of Dr. Stewart’s scholarship and field-defining research in the field of religion.

Having been chosen from nearly 3,500 applicants, she joins 198 scholars …

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Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism “Vengeance Feminism”

Posted onDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024

Signs Journal featured Vengeance Feminism, Dr. Kali Gross’s most recent publication as esteemed participants Kellie Carter Jackson, Joy James, Koritha Mitchell and Michelle B. Taylor share their thoughts and reflections on this work. Speaking to what resonated with them, …

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World-renowned poet, activist Nikki Giovanni remembered across Atlanta

Posted onDecember 12, 2024December 12, 2024

Dr. Bettina Judd talks about the life and legacy of Nikki Giovanni and her personal experience with the legendary poet and activist.

Watch the interview here. …

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Dr. Dianne Stewart & Dr. Kyrah Daniels Religion Dispatch Op-Ed (This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy)

Posted onSeptember 30, 2024January 23, 2025

Dr. Dianne Stewart and Dr. Kyrah Daniels co-authored an op-ed on Trump and Vance’s racist claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH. They contextualize the current moment with past displays of anti-Blackness and look at how this moment compounds anti-Blackness …

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