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Ahmad Greene-Hayes
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Ahmad Greene-Hayes is associate professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School. His research focuses on African American religious history, race, sexuality, queer theory, and Black religious traditions in the Americas. He is the author of Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (2025) and Little Richard’s Witness: Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality (2027). He serves as managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions and co-chair of the Afro-American Religious History Unit of the American Academy of Religion. His scholarship examines the intersections of religion, identity, and historical memory.