Dr. Molly Bassett received an NEH Summer Stipend to support work on The Bundle: Unwrapping Aztec Religion, a book-length study of tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles) as a model for theory and method in the study of Mexica (Aztec) religion. The award supports two consecutive months of research and writing.
Dr. Monique Moultrie released her book, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership on Friday, March 10! She held a book signing at Columbia Theological Seminary on April 18, 2023. She had a new article that came out in March 2023, "Centering Black Women: Embodied Ethics and Womanist Ethnographic Pedagogy" in the Wabash Center’s Journal on Teaching. Her grant, The Garden Initiative for Black Women's Religious Activism's website officially beta-launched and is welcoming its inaugural class of peer-mentoring fellows. Dr. Moultrie was thrilled to talk about her newest book with Essence Magazine and the Duke University Press blog. She also did an interview with NPR and got a small quote in their story. She presented at the Society of Christian Ethics in January 2023 and attended the Society for the Study of Black Religion in March 2023.
Dr. Andrew Walker-Cornetta, along with Dr. Antonius Skipper from the Gerontology Institute, was awarded a Religion and Health grant from Interfaith America to develop a dual-level course entitled Religion and Aging that will be offered in the spring of 2024. He was also selected as a Maymester Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Research Center here at GSU. In March, he was invited to present at the Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago.His paper was entitled, “Placing the ‘Eternal Child.’”