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RELIGION, RACE, AND SLAVERY IN THE As part of the Department of ’s 2020-2021 series of events on race and the study of religion, these three virtual lectures will explore the connections among religion, race, and slavery in the early Americas.

Lecture 1 Tuesday, February 9, 2021 @ 4:30 pm ET

What to the Slave is Religion?: Women, Race, and Reproduction in the Definition of a Category A l e x i s W e l l s - O g h o g h o m e h Assistant in the Religious Studies department at Vanderbilt University. A historian of African-American religion, her teaching and research examine the religiosity of enslaved people in the South, religion in the African Atlantic, and women’s religious . She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College, and Master of Divinity and Ph.D. from .

Lecture 2 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 @ 4:30 pm ET Bearing the Burden of : Slavery, Religion, and the University

A l p h o n s o F . S a v i l l e , I V Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. A scholar of American religious , his teaching and research interests include American religious history, in America, and development for and community leaders. He earned his B.A. at New University, an M.A. at Memphis Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Emory University.

Lecture 3 Tuesday, February 23, 2021 @ 4:30 pm ET Spiritual Racialization: of Race and Slavery in the Colonial

K e l s e y C h r i s t i n a M o s s Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching interests include Africana and the intersections of race, slavery, and in the early modern Atlantic World. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Religion with a specialization in Religion in the Americas and certificates in African American and Latin American Studies.

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