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LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

Visiting Scholar

LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (Ph.D., Emory University) is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses in African Diaspora Religions, American Religious Culture, and Ethnography of Religion and Gender. Prof. Manigault-Bryant's research interests include Gullah/Geechee Culture; Gender, Race, and Religion; Visual media, Popular Culture, and Religion; Music and Performative Memory; and Feminist/Womanist Approaches to Religion. She is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including most recently a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Louisville Institute First Book Award.

Selected Publications In Press:

  • Contributor, The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman Vol. 1: 1929-1936. Columbia, SC:
    University of South Carolina Press. Forthcoming 2009.
  • "Color-Blind America?" Religion Dispatches. November 19, 2008. http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/election08/748/

Selected Publications Under Review:

  • Manuscript: "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time:" Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women
  • Article: "The Historian as Progressive: Mason Crum, the Gullah, and the Contradictions of Race"

Selected Presentations

  • 2010: Invited Panelist, "Troubling Black Religion: Changing Times and the Study of Black Religion," SECSOR, Atlanta, GA
  • 2009: "Masculinizing the Feminine/Feminizing the Masculine: Women, Religion and Embodiment in Contemporary Comedic Film," AAR, MontrĂ©al, Canada
  • 2008: "The Language You Cry In," National History Day Summer Teacher's Institute, Savannah, GA
  • 2008: "Spaces 'Over There': Death in the Lives of Gullah/Geechee Women," University of Virginia
  • 2007: "Listening to the Dead Speak: Gullah/Geechee Women and the Ethnographic Imagination," Race and Religion Workshop, University of Chicago