Today’s conversation is with Ifetayo Flannery, who teaches in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. Her research focuses on Black Studies methodology, questions of identity across the African diaspora, and the expansive significance of religious traditions. Along with a number of scholarly articles, she is the author of Lineage: Religious Culture & the (Re)Makings of Ethnic Identity in the African Diaspora and editor of the collection An Introduction to Black Psychology. In this conversation, we discuss the origins of Black Studies as a discipline, the contributions and challenges of Africological approaches to the field, and how Black Studies methodologies shape and reshape ethical, political, and cultural life.