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CO-SPONSORED SESSION: African Diaspora Religions Unit, African Religions Unit, Comparative Studies in Religion Unit and Religion and Food Unit
Call for Proposals
For a co-sponsored session with the African Diaspora Religions, Religion and Food, and/or African Religions unit, papers considering the above themes with specific reference to the African and/or African Diasporic religious context. Recognizing our location in borderlands Texas, we invite papers considering geographically relevant topics such as:
- religion and food in Texas, Mexican, Latin American, Indigenous, Black, and borderlands Latinx communities
- meat, barbecue, meat-eating, and alternative meat
- religion and food in relation to land, water, agriculture, and those who work the land, often migrant workers
- the consumption of peyote, ayahuasca, and other ethnobotanical/entheogenic/psychedelic substances
Sponsors
Chairs
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David Amponsah, University of Pennsylvania1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Scott Barton, University of Notre Dame1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas, Austin1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Georgette Ledgister, Harvard University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Aldea Mulhern, California State University, Fresno1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Carol Marie Webster, Independent Scholar1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Benjamin Zeller, Lake Forest College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
Steering Committee Members
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Andrea Allen, University of Toronto1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Elyse Ambrose, University of California, Riverside1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Ruth Amwe, Princeton Theological Seminary1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Kijan Bloomfield, Columbia University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Ashley Coleman Taylor, University of Texas1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Meredith Coleman-Tobias, Mount Holyoke College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Sara Fretheim, University of Munster1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Jessie Fubara-Manuel, University of Edinburgh1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Rachel Gordan, University of Florida1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Derek Hicks, Wake Forest University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Eric Huntington, Rice University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Christopher Jensen, Carleton University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Malene Minor Johnson, Case Western Reserve University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Claremont Graduate University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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David Ngong, Stillman College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Sheila Otieno, Boston University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Elizabeth Perez, University of California, Santa Barbara1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Sarah Robinson, University of Victoria1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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William Schanbacher, University of South Florida1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Thomas Seat, Princeton Theological Seminary1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
Method
PAPERS
Review Process
Proposer names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee members