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