ASWAD Presents: From the Pages - A Book Talk with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh and Dianne Stewart
Monday, April 29, 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
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"From the Pages..." featuring Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh's The Souls of Womenfolk Join us on April 29, 2024 as we discuss Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh's The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South, moderated by Dianne M. Stewart.
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh is an Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies department at Stanford University. Her first book The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South (UNC Press, 2021) won the 2023 Outstanding First Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and was a finalist for the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She is currently at work on a second monograph that traces the gendered, racialized history of phenomena termed “witchcraft” in the United States, as well as a two-volume documentary history of religion and slavery. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Forum for Theological Education, among others. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College, and Master of Divinity degree and Ph.D. from Emory University. This event will be streamed live on April 29th at 4pm.
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