Christians and the Color Line
Race and Religion after Divided by Faith
Edited by J. Russell Hawkins and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Author Information
J. Russell Hawkins is Assistant Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. His research interests cover the intersection of race, evangelical religion, and politics in recent American history.
Phillip Luke Sinitiere is Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, a multiethnic school located in Houston's culturally rich Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American religion and culture, he is co-author of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (2009). With Amy Helene Kirschke he edited Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History (2013).
Contributors:
Edward J. Blum is an associate professor of history at San Diego State University. His books include (with Paul Harvey) The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America (2012) and W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (2007).
Ryon J. Cobb is a post-doctoral fellow in the Roybal Institute on Aging at the University of Southern California.
Korie L. Edwards is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on race and religion in the United States. She has authored several articles and books including Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations (2005) and The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches (2008).
Brantley W. Gasaway is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Bucknell University, where his research and teaching focuses on religion in American public life, politics, and law. He has published articles concerning the political implications of evangelical epistemology, evangelicals and environmentalism, and religious architecture.
J. Russell Hawkins is an assistant professor of humanities and history in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. His research explores the relationship between evangelical religion and race in recent American history.
Karen Joy Johnson is an assistant professor of history at Wheaton College. Her research is on race, religion, and gender in the urban world.
Mark T. Mulder is associate professor of sociology and director of the urban studies minor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Miles S. Mullin, II is an assistant professor of Church History at the J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies, Southwestern Seminary's campus in Houston, Texas. Although he maintains broad historical and theological interests, his research focuses on twentieth-century religion and American culture.
Darryl Scriven was trained in philosophy of religion at Florida A&M University and Purdue University. He has held faculty appointments at Wilberforce University, Southern University, and Tuskegee University and is the author of A Dealer Of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations with David Walker (2007).
Tobin Miller Shearer is an associateprofessor of history at the University of Montana where he also directs the African American Studies Program. His most recent book is Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries (2010).
Phillip Luke Sinitiere is an associate professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a multiethnic school located in Houston's Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American religion and culture, he is co-author of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (2009) and co-editor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis and American History (2013).
Jerry Z. Park is an associate professor of sociology at Baylor University. He has published numerous academic articles on religion, race, Asian Americans, work attitudes and civic engagement.
Erica Ryu Wong received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the intersection and interaction of religious and racial/ethnic identities and diversity in organizations.
