Berkley Center

Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward is associate professor of Africana studies and anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the dynamic multidirectional relationship between physical bodies and group identity. She is the author of Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (2016).

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.

Dr. Jeanette S. Jouili is associate professor of religion at Syracuse University. Her research includes the areas of contemporary Islam, Islam in Europe, anthropology of religion, ethics, and religious pluralism and secularism. She is the author of Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (2015).