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This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars – senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers – in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Today’s conversation is with Professor Cona Marshall, Assistant Professor of Religion and Classics at University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. At the University of Rochester, Professor Marshall teaches and publishes on womanism, Black feminism, the institution of the Black church, and the rhetorical dimensions of African American public religious practice.

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