Berkley Center

Victor Anderson is the Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is also the Professor in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Terrence L. Johnson is a professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School. He was a senior fellow at the Berkley Center from February to September 2022, after having previously served as a senior research fellow from April 2019 to January 2022. From 2015 to 2022 he was an associate professor of religion and politics at Georgetown University's Department of Government, as well as an affiliate member of the Department of African American Studies and member of the executive committee of the Center for Jewish Civilization. Johnson’s research interests include African American political thought, ethics, American religions, and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (2022, with Jacques Berlinerblau); We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter (2021); and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (2012). He also serves as co-editor of the Duke University Press Series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Johnson holds a B.A. from Morehouse College, an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

Rev. Jennifer S. Leath, Ph.D., is Queens National Scholar and assistant professor of Black religions at Queen's University, Canada. Her research concentrates on the intersection of sexualities and religions in sacred communities and spaces of African diaspora.

Joseph Winters is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African and African American Studies at Duke University. His research interests lie at the intersection of African-American religious thought, black literature, and critical theory. Winters is author of Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress (2016).