Co-Sponsorship In-person November Annual Meeting 2026

CO-SPONSORSHIP: Afro-American Religious History Unit and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit

Call for Proposals

Over Our Heads and Sittin' on High: Womanist Spiritual Technologies, Afrofuturism, and the Sound of Sacred Imagination

Lisa Allen, Over My Head: The Power of Ancestral Music to Future the Black Church, and Melanie Hill, Colored Women Sittin' on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music.

We invite papers reflecting on Allen's and /or Hill's texts to discuss the Womanist-Afrofuturist spiritual technologies of imagination, improvisation, and adaptability function through spiritual practices of liturgy, ritual, preaching, story, myth, Conjure, and time exploration to help communities envision themselves into generative, hope-filled futures. (Open Papers / Authors will be respondents)

Sponsors
Afro-American Religious History Unit	View
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit	View

Chair	Mail	Dates
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Harvard University	ahmadg@hds.harvard.edu	2026/01/01 - 2031/12/31	View
Candace Laughinghouse	drcandacelaughinghouse…	2026/01/01 - 2031/12/31	View
Matthew Cressler	mjcressler@gmail.com	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Valerie Miles-Tribble, Berkeley School of…	macsvmt@gmail.com	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View

Steering Member	Mail	Dates
Alexia Williams	alexiaw@illinois.edu	2022/01/01 - 2027/12/31	View
Ambre Dromgoole, Cornell University	ambrelynae@gmail.com	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
AnneMarie Mingo, Pittsburgh Theological…	annemariemingo@gmail.com	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Cori Tucker-Price	ctprice@ucsb.edu	2026/01/01 - 2031/12/31	View
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University	eboni.marshallturman…	2022/01/01 - 2027/12/31	View
Elizabeth Jemison, Clemson University	ejemiso@clemson.edu	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Jathan Martin	jathan.martin@yale.edu	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View
Joseph Stuart	joseph.stuart@byu.edu	2025/03/17 - 2031/03/17	View
Lakisha Lockhart, Union Presbyterian Seminary	lakisharlockhart@gmail…	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Neonu Jewell	neonujewell@gmail.com	2022/01/01 - 2027/12/31	View
Tatayana Richardson, Vanderbilt University	tatayana.richardson…	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View
Timothy Rainey, St. Olaf College	tmraineyii@gmail.com	2025/01/01 - 2030/12/31	View

Review Process: Participant names are anonymous to chairs and steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection