Institutional Reparation: Listening to the ghosts of the past as a practice for the present

This paper outlines steps for initiating conversations on institutional complicity in the evils of White supremacy.  Drawn from the research of a new book (Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Institutional Reparation (Fordham University Press, 2025), this paper centers a method of knowing our institutional histories as the foundation for navigating complicities both past and present.  Audience members will be introduced to ways of leveraging research in the archives with microhistories that might open a space for difficult conversations.