2022-2023
October 12, 2022
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture on Religion, Reed College
November 2-3, 2022
“Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in Early 20th Century America”
Gates Lecture, Grinnell College
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Scholars Convocation, Grinnell College
December 6, 2022
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Healthcare and Religion Lecture Series, University of Pittsburgh
December 13, 2022
Moderator: “Ethnography and Black Religions”
A Crossroads Project Virtual Panel Discussion
February 22, 2023
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
McLester Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
March 7, 2023
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Philosophy and Religion Forum, University of Southern Mississippi
April 3, 2023
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and Black Religion”
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, University of California at Berkeley
April 6, 2023
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies
April 28, 2023
“Black Freedom and the Racialization of ‘Religious Excitement’ in American Psychiatry”
Keynote Address: American Society for the Study of Religion
2021-2022
September 30, 2021
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Simpson College, Matthew Simpson Lecture
October 12, 2021
“Race, Religion, and Black Jewish Identity in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.”
Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham, Jewish Studies and Black Studies In Conversation Series
February 3, 2022
“Spiritual Madness: American Psychiatry, Race, and Black Religions”
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Witherspoon Lecture
February 21, 2022
“Spiritual Madness: American Psychiatry, Race, and Black Religions”
Haverford College
February 24, 2022
“Spiritual Madness: American Psychiatry, Race, and Black Religions”
Boston University
2020-2021
May 3, 2021
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
University of Kansas, Department of Religion
April 29, 2021
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
University of California at Riverside Religious Studies Colloquium
March 25, 2021
“’We are the Ethiopian Hebrews, Brothers to the Fair White Jew’: Race, Religion, and Jewish Identity in Harlem”
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Series on Jews, Race, and Religion
January 20, 2021
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Louisville Institute Winter Seminar
October 30, 2020
“‘Hoodoos and Voodoos’: Theories of Black Superstition and Madness”
Black Religious Studies Working Group
October 27, 2020
“‘Hoodoos and Voodoos’: Theories of Black Superstition and Madness”
Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, American History Research Seminar
2019-2020
May 4, 2020
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
University of Kansas [canceled due to COVID-19]
April 2-4, 2020
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting [canceled due to COVID-19]
March 12, 2020
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Purdue University [canceled due to COVID-19]
January 3-6, 2020
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
November 23-25, 2019
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
November 5, 2019
“Race and Religion”
University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium
October 3, 2019
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
University of Iowa
2018-2019
October 3, 2018
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Lerner Workshop in Religion and Society, Religious Studies Program, New York University
October 9, 2018
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
James and David Orr Lecture on Culture and Religion, Dartmouth College
October 25-26, 2018
“’An Authentic, Incontestable Celluloid Document’: Race, Religion and Documentary Truth”
O. Meredith Wilson Symposium in History, University of Utah
April 2, 2019
“Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and African American Religions”
Sacramento State University, Festival of the Arts
June 6-9
Religion & American Culture Biennial Conference
2017-2018
June 17, 2018
American Jewish Historical Society Biennial Scholars’ Conference
“Beyond Identity Politics” and “New Visions for the Study of American Jews: North American Religions Revisited”
June 9, 2018
Smith-Pettit Lecture
Mormon History Association Conference
March 23-24, 2018
Featured Author, Seminar in American Religion
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
March 5, 2018
“Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Great Migration”
Armstrong Lecture, Kalamazoo College
February 19, 2018
“Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Urban North”
Colloquium in History and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
February 9-10, 2018
“Religion and the American Normal” Conference
Princeton University
November 19, 2017
Respondent: “Religio-Racial Identity” as Challenge and Critique”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
Boston, Massachusetts
October 25, 2017
“Religion, Media, and Narrative” in conversation with Kathryn Lofton
Center for the Study of Religion, Ohio State University
2016-2017
September 28, 2016 @ Noon
“Black Gods, Prophets, and Utopian Visions: Religion and Racial Identity in Early 20th Century America”
Spotlight on the Humanities
Princeton Public Library
November 20, 2016 @ 4:30PM
Book Signing
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
New York University Press Booth # 611
San Antonio Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 1
February 6, 2017
Works-in-Progress
Columbia University Seminar on Religion in America
March 9, 2017
In conversation with Wallace Best about New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Labyrinth Books, Princeton
March 24, 2017
Cinema + Conversation Panel on Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust
National Museum of African American History and Culture