SANDY DWAYNE MARTIN (2008)

Professor and Head 1061 Mallard Circle

Department of Religion Bogart, GA 30622

University of Georgia (706) 310-1421

Athens, GA 30602

(706) 542-1485 -- FAX 706-542-6724

Email: martin@uga.edu

PERSONAL:

Date of Birth: January 2, 1951

Gender: Male

Spouse: Danita

Children: Terrance, John

EDUCATION:

Doctor of Philosophy Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary

(Religion) New York, New York. January 1981

Master of Philosophy/ Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary

Master of Arts New York, New York. May 1978 and May 1975

(Religion)

Bachelor of Arts Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi.

Summa Cum Laude

Majors: Philosophy and Religion; Political Science,

May 1973

Study Northwest Mississippi Junior College, Senatobia,

Mississippi, Summer and Academic Year, 1969-70

ADMINISTRATION / RELATED ACTIVITIES

Head, The Department of Religion, The University of Georgia, 1999-2002, 2004-2007,

Reappointed for 2007-2010

Acting Chairperson, Department of Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta,

GA. Fall Semester 1986

Graduate Coordinator, Department of Religion, The University of Georgia,

June 1990-June 1994

President, (Southeastern Region) American Academy of Religion,

March 1993-March 1994.

Vice-President and Program Chair, (Southeastern Region) American

Academy of Religion, March 1992-March 1993.

Chair, Curriculum Committee, Franklin College of Arts and

Sciences (95-96), The University of Georgia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Currently: Professor/Head of Religion, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

(Originally appointed at rank of Associate Professor, Fall 1988)

Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Georgia

Member, The Honors Faculty, Programs for Superior

Students, University of Georgia

Graduate Coordinator, Department of Religion, June 1990-June 1994

Department Head, 1999-2002

Associate Professor of Church History, The Interdenominational

Theological Center, Atlanta, GA. July 1987-July 1988

Acting Chairperson, Department of Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta,

GA. Fall Semester 1986

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta,

GA. Fall 1985-Summer 1987.

Assistant Professor (1981-1985), Instructor (1980-1981), Lecturer (1979-

1980), Department of Philosophy and Religion, The University of North

Carolina at Wilmington, 1979-1985.

Adjunct Instructor, Theology Department, Saint Peter's College, Jersey

City, NJ, Spring 1979.

Adjunct Lecturer, Black Studies Department, Herbert Lehman College,

Bronx, New York, Fall 1978.

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE:

Primary American Religious History (including African American

Religious History)

History of Christianity

Secondary General Courses in the Area of Religious Studies (e.g.,

World Religions, Introduction to the Old Testament,

Introduction to New Testament, Philosophy of Religion).

COURSES TAUGHT:

(*Graduate Level - **Split level, Undergraduate/Graduate)

The University of Introduction to Western Religious Traditions

Georgia Religious Perspectives of Mankind (Honors)

Religion in U.S. History

Biblical Perspectives of Womanhood

Seminar in Problems and Topics in Religion Research*

Seminar in the History of Christianity* (Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr., Religion, and Civil Rights)

Theories and Methods in Religious Study and Pedagogy*

History of Christian Theology - Ancient **

History of Christian Theology - Modern**

African American Religious History**

American Religious History**

Southern Religious History**

Women in Christian History**

African American Religious Organizations

Interdenominational Church History II: From Reformation to the Present*

Theological Center Eighteenth Century Wesleyan Revivals*

History of the Black Church*

Introduction to Philosophy and Theology*

Contemporary Theology*

Spelman College A Survey of Christianity

World Religions

Introduction to the New Testament

History of Black Religion in America

Women of the Bible

U.N.C.-Wilmington Introduction to Religion

Introduction to the New Testament

Early Christian Writings

History of Christianity II: From Reformation to the Present

Religion in America

Afro-American Religion

Southern Religion to 1865

Black Religious and Political Thought since 1955

(Experimental, Team Taught with Political Science Department)

Saint Peter's College Black Religion in America

Herbert Lehman Introduction to Black Studies

College

PUBLICATIONS:

Advance Book Contracts:

“African American Religious History: Narrating Challenges and Triumphs,” for Mercer University Press.

“From a Mighty Long Way: Documents in African American Baptist History," for Mercer University Press, due Summer 2008.

Books:

Black Baptists and African Missions, 1880-1915: The Origins of A

Movement (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1989).

Black Baptists and African Missions, 1880-1915: The Origins of A

Movement (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, Paperback Edition,

Spring 1998).

For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999).

Articles:

"How Falwell Differs from King," The Humanist Sociologist 7 (March 1981): 13-14.

"The Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, 1880-1894," Baptist History and Heritage 16 (October 1981): 13-25.

"The American Baptist Home Mission Society and Black Higher Education in the South, 1865-1920," Foundations 24 (October-December 1981): 310-27.

"Humanism, Religion and Politics Today," The Humanist Sociologist 8 (March 1982): 13-15

"Black Baptists, Foreign Missions, and African Colonization, 1814-1882," in Black Americans and Missionary Movement in Africa, edited by Sylvia M. Jacobs (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1982), pp. 63-76.

"Spelman's Emma B. DeLaney and the African Mission," in The Journal of Religious Thought 41 (Spring-Summer 1984): 22-37.

"Black Baptist Women and African Mission Work, 1870-1925," SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 3 (Spring 1986): 16-19.

"The Debate over Interracial Cooperation among Black Baptists in the African Mission Movement, 1895-1905," The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 13 (Spring 1986): 291-303.

"Recovery of the Story: Black Churches and Evangelism," in James O. Stallings' Telling the Story: Evangelism and the Black Church (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1988), pp. 21-49.

"Recovery of the Story: Evangelism and Slave Religion," in James O. Stallings' Telling the Story: Evangelism and the Black Church (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1988), pp. 51-75.

"Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Interfaith Dialogue, 1955-1968," The Journal of Religious Thought 48 (Winter-Spring, 1991-1992): 34-48.

"African-American Baptists: An Historiographical Study" in African-American Religion: Research Problems and Resources for the 1990s (New York: Schomburg Center NY Public Library, 1992), pp. 10-30.

"Black Churches and the Civil War: Theological and Ecclesiastical Significance of Black Methodist Involvement, 1861-1865" for Methodist History 32 (April 1994): 174-186.

Nine (9) articles on African American Baptist History and Leaders for Dictionary of Baptists in America, Ed. by Bill J. Leonard (Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 1994), pp. 47, 63, 92, 116, 175, 223, 281-282, 283, 288-289.

"The AMEZ Church and the Women's Ordination Controversy: A Case Study of the Value of Racial Inclusivity in Religious Studies," in The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 21 (Fall 1993/Spring 1994): 105-126.

"Missionary Movements [African-American]" in the Encyclopedia of African- American Culture and History, Vol. 4, ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, Copyright 1996), pp. 1815-1818.

"African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church" for the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, Vol. 1, ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West (New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, Copyright 1996), pp. 67-71.

"Spelman's Emma B. DeLaney and the African Mission," (Reprint) in This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography,

ed. By Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 220-235.

"Biblical Interpretation, Ecclesiology, and Black Southern Religious Leaders, 1860- 1920: A Case Study of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood," a chapter in Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down: African American Roots in Southern Religion ed. by Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jersild (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 110-138.

"Clarence Darrow," in Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States, edited by George H. Shriver and Bill J. Leonard (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1997)

"Archibald Hodge," in Ibid.

"Charles Hodge," in Ibid.

"Ordination of Women," in Ibid.

"Papal Infallibility," in Ibid.

"Rosa Parks," in Ibid.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe," in Ibid.

"Henry McNeal Turner," in Ibid.

"Theodore Weld," in Ibid.

"Edward M. Brawley," in American National Biography, Vol. 3 (Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 443-44.

"Richard DeBaptiste," in American National Biography, Vol. 6 (Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 306-307.

"William J. Simmons," in American National Biography, Vol. 19 (Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 953-54.

"James Varick," in American National Biography, Vol. 22 (Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 273-74.

"William J. Walls," in American National Biography, Vol. 22 (Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 559-60.

"Uncle Tom, Pragmatist, or Visionary?: An Assessment of the Reverend Dr. Joseph H. Jackson and Civil Rights" for African American Conservatism,

edited by Peter Eisenstadt (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1999), pp. 169-200.

"Providence and the Black Christian Consensus: A Historical Essay on the African American Religious Experience," in Courage to Hope, honoring

the late Professor James M. Washington of Union Theological Seminary (NYC) edited by Cornel West and Quinton Dixie (Boston: Beacon Press,

1999), pp. 40-60.

“Black Baptists, African Missions, and Racial Identity, 1800-1915: A Case Study of African American Religion,” Baptist History and Heritage 35

(Summer/Fall 2000): 79-92.

“The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church” in the Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion s, Berkshire Reference Works

(New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 13-15.

“Black Baptists and World War II,” Baptist History and Heritage 36 (Summer / Fall 2001): 92-105.

“Progressive National Baptist Convention,” Baptist Studies Bulletin (On-line), October 2002.

“American Colonization Society,” Encyclopedia of Protestantism (New York/London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 42, Voume 1.

“African Methodist Episcopal Church,” pp. 19-21, Volume 1.

“African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” pp. 21-23, Volume 1.

“Progressive National Baptist Convention,” pp. 1568-1569, Volume 3.

“African American Christianity,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and American Cultures, Volume 1, ed. by Gary Laderman and Luis Leon (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 10-13.

“African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” “Christian Methodist Episcopal Church,” “Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church,” “Silver Bluff Baptist Church,” for South Carolina Encyclopedia Ed. by Walter Edgar (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2006).

“African American Christians and the African Mission Movement during the Nineteenth Century,” in Klaus Koschorke, ed., Transkontinentale Beziehungen

in der Geschichte des Aussereuropaishchen Christentums (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) (StAECG, Vol. 6. Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002).

“Andrew Bryan,” New Georgia Encyclopedia. On-line. February 2005.

“E. K. Love, “ New Georgia Encyclopedia. On-line. February 2005.

“Women in African American Protestant Denominations,” Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Vol. 1, ed. by Rosemary Keller, et. al.

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, In Press, 2006). (8000 plus word, article length entry).

"National Baptists,” in The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse Tradition, ed. by W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006), pp. 69-92.

African American Baptist Origins, a pamphlet in The Baptist Origins Series, ed. by Charles W. DeWeese and Pamela R. Durso (Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2006).

“William Washington Colley,” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Volume 3, Sara B. Bearss, Senior Editor (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2006), pp. 374-75.

“Forward,” for Robert T. Ayers, The Bible and Contemporary Theology: The Quest for Truth and Relevance (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), pp. iii-vii.

"Agyeman, Jaramogi Abebe," in African American National Biography, ed. by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Volume 1, pp. 48-9.

"Hosier, Harry," Ibid,, Volume 4, pp. 326-8.

"Morris, Elias Camp," Ibid., Volume 6, pp. 27-8.

"Muhammad, Warith Deen," Ibid., Volume 6, pp. 81-2.

"Small, Mary Jane Blair," Ibid., Volume 7, p. 247.

“Baptists, Race, and the Turn from Slavery to Greater Institutionalization among African American Baptists, 1850-1880,” [Chapter title subject to editorial change.] in Turning Points in Baptist History, edited by Michael E. Williams, Jr. and Walter B. Shurden (Macon: Mercer University Press, expected 2008), in press.

Book Reviews:

"Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, by Milton C. Sernett (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985)" in The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 16 (September/October 1985): 59.

"A Burning and A Shining Light: English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley, edited by David Lyle Jeffrey (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987)" in Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 15 (Fall 1987/Spring 1988, Published Spring 1990): 236-237.

"Beyond Opportunity: Jesse Jackson's Vision for America by Roger D. Hatch (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988)" in Journal of Interdenominational Theological Center 15 (Fall 1987/Spring 1988, Published Spring 1990): 238-240.

"Race and Religion in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, 1850-1877: Protestant Parochial Philanthropists by Joseph R. Washington, Jr." in Studies in American Religion Series, Volume 40 (Two-Volume Set) (Lewiston, PA: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988) in Theology Today 47 (1990): 313-316.

"Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought by Robert Franklin (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990)" in Journal of Interdenominational Theological Center 16 (Fall 1988/Spring 1989 [Published Spring 1991]): 306-311.

"There Is A Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lewis V. Baldwin (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991)" in The Journal of Interdenominational Theological Center 18 (Fall 1990/Spring 1991 Issue [Published Fall 1992]): 172-175.

"Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African American Religion in the South by Stephen W. Angell (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992)" in The Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (Spring 1993): 209-210.

"An African-American Exodus: The Segregation of the Southern Churches by Katharine L. Dvorak (Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991)" in Journal of Southern History 59 (May 1993): 393-394.

"Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 1993)," in The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 21 (Fall 1993/Spring 1994): 168-172.

"Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900, by William E. Montgomery (Baton Rouge, LA:

Louisiana State University Press, 1993),” in Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 48 (Spring 1995): 378-381.

“From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister by Grant Gordon (Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Canada: Lancelot Press Limited, 1992),” published by Missiology: An International Review 24, No.1 (January 1996): 116.

“We're Heaven Bound!: Portrait of a Black Sacred Drama by Gregory D. Coleman (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994)” for The

Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (Spring 1996): 203-204.

“The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation by Reginald F. Hilderbrand(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), “ for The Journal of Southern History 62, No. 4 (November 1996): 823-824.

“Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 by Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood (Chapel

Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998)” for The Journal of Religion, 79 (October 1999): pp. 664-665.

“Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report by Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen (New York and London: Routledge, 1998)” for National Political Science Review (In Press).

“The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940 by Ingrid Overacker (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1998)” for the journal, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 69 (March 2000): 237-8.

“Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelist by Adrienne M. Israel (Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1998)” for the journal, Missiology: An International Review 24 (October 2000): 513.

“When the Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama by David Collins in The Journal of Religion 80 (October 2000): 679-81.

“In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, A Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson” (Ken,

Ohio and London: Kent State University Press, c.1998) for The Journal of Southern History 67 (May 2001): 282-283.

Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn; and Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of imperialism, 1884-1916, by Lawrence S. Little -- both books published Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Appearing as a single review in The Journal of American Academy of Religion. Vol. 71. No. 3 (March 2003).

Baptist Ways: A History by Bill J. Leonard Judson Press, 2003 in Baptist Studies Bulletin, September 2003 issue, on-line publication.

Elevating the Race: Theophilus G. Steward, Black Theology, and the Making of an African American Civil Society, 1865-1924. By Albert G. Miller (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2003) for THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW 81 (April 2004): 242-3.

Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. By Rosetta E. Ross (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2003) for CHURCH HISTORY: STUDIES IN CHRISTIANITY & CULTURE 73 (September 2004): 704-705.

Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston. By Wilber L. Jenkins (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003) for THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION 84 (October 2004): 620-1.

Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. By Craig D. Townsend. (new York: Columbia University Press, 2005), for CHURCH HISTORY: STUDIES IN CHRISTIANITY & CULTURE, 76 (June 2007): 446-8.

Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. By Diane B. Stinton (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004), for CHURCH HISTORY: STUDIES IN CHRISTIANITY & CULTURE, in press for September 2008.

Southern Missioins: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective. By Charles Reagan Wilson. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006), for CHURCH HISTORY: STUDIES IN CHRISTIANITY & CULTURE, in press for December 2008.

Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years. By Henry H. Mitchell (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004), for BAPTIST HISTORY AND HERITAGE, in press.

Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology and Black Power by Dwight N. Hopkins, editor (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007), for JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, in press.

PAPERS DELIVERED:

"Black Baptists and the Foreign Mission Movement, 1815-1875," Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, NC, April 1980.

"Black Baptists, Foreign Missions, African Colonization, 1815-1872," Annual Meeting, The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, New Orleans, LA, October 1980.

"The Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, 1880-1894: A Case Study of Black Independency," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, CA, December 1981.

"The Role of Virginia Black Baptists in the Foreign Mission Movement in Nineteenth Century America," Spring Meeting, The Association of Historians in Eastern North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, March 1982.

"Black Baptists and the Colonization Movement in Early America: A Case Study in Religious Separatism," Annual Meeting, Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, Memphis, TN, July 1982

"Black Baptist Women, African Missions, and Black Baptist Colleges, 1880-1920, with A Focus on Emma B. DeLaney and Spelman College," American Academy of Religion (Southeastern Region), Atlanta, GA, March 1983.

"The Concept of Chosen People in the Social Thought of Marcus Garvey and Martin Luther King, Jr.," American Academy of Religion (Southeastern Region), Williamsburg, VA, March 1984.

"The Debate Over Interracial Cooperation Among Black Baptists in the African Mission Movement, 1895-1905," American Academy of Religion (Southeastern Region), Athens, GA, March 1985.

"Black Baptist Women in the African Missionary Movement, 1870-1925," Southeastern Region of American Academy of Religion, Chattanooga, TN, March 1986.

"Black Baptist Colleges and the Rise of the African Missions Movement, 1865-1920" for the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (National Convention), Atlanta, GA, November 1986.

"Evangelism in the Nineteenth Century Black Church," American Academy of Religion, Southeastern Meeting, Macon, GA, March 1988.

"The Role of Religion in the Black Experience," panel discussion paper, Beyond the Dream Teleconference, the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, February 1989.

"Bishop James Walker Hood and the Institutionalization of the Southern Black Church, 1860-1916," American Academy of Religion, Southeastern Region Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 1989.

"Black Churches and the Civil War: The Theological and Ecclesiastical Significance of Black Methodist Involvement, 1861-1865," American Society of Church History, Spring Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 1989.

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Interfaith Dialogue, 1955-1968," National Conference of Christians and Jews, The University of Georgia, May 1989.

"Historiography and Black Baptists in the United States," African American Religion: Research Problems and Resources for the 1990s Symposium, Schomburg Center for Research (of the New York Public Library), New York, New York, May 26, 1990.

"The Reverend James W. Hood and the AME Zion Church, 1864-1916," Southern Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Forth Worth, Texas, November 1991.

"The Political Legacy of Bishop James W. Hood, 1865-1916," American Academy of Religion - Southeastern Region, Atlanta, GA, March 1992.

"Commentary on the History of African American Baptists in Overseas Missions," African American Missions Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1992.

"A Critical Assessment of the Role of the African American Church in the Quest for Racial Justice," Twelfth Annual Conference on the Black Experience, Paine College, Augusta, GA, February 1993.

"An Introduction to the Biblical Hermeneutics of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood, 1880-1910," Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, DC, November 1993.

"A Review of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's Righteous Discontent The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880 - 1920 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)," for Baptist Professors of Religion, Southeastern Meeting, Atlanta Georgia, March 1994.

"The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the Women's Ordination Controversy, 1898-1900," Presidential Address, Southeastern Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1994.

"A Review of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)," for The Society for the Study of Black Religion, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1994.

"James Walker Hood's Biblical Hermeneutics: A Case Study of Black Mainstream Biblical Conservatism and Progressive Thought, 1880-1910," for the Robert T. Handy Seminar, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, October 11, 1994.

"Reconstruction Era Activities of James Walker Hood of the AMEZ Church," African American Studies Program, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, February 1995.

"James Walker Hood and Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1864-1872," Religion and Southern Culture Colloquium, The University of Mississippi, April 24, 1995.

"Themes in Southern Religious History," for the Lower Altamaha Historical Society, Darien, Georgia, July 1995 [In connection with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, UGA, Outreach Program].

Respondent to Four Papers on the Theme, "Leadership and Representation in Black Religious Life," American Academy of Religion (National Meeting), Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 1995.

Presider, African American Religious History Session, American Society of Church History, Atlanta, GA, January 5, 1996.

Presentation on 1995 Summer Fellowship Research ("Women's Ordination and the AMEZ Church"), and Participation in the January Seminar at

the Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY, January 26-27, 1996.

"Women's Ordination in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Some Theological and Ecclesiastical Factors, 1800-1900," American Academy of Religion -- Southeastern Regional Meeting, Columbia, SC, March 1996.

"James Walker Hood and the AME Zion Church in North Carolina, 1864-1872," Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (National Meeting), Charleston, South Carolina, October 1996.

"James Walker Hood's Missionary and Church Organizing Activities in the South, 1864-1876: A Study of Denominational Expansion during the Civil War

and Post-Civil War Era(s)," American Academy of Religion (National Meeting), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1996.

"James Walker Hood, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and Presidential Politics, 1900-1916," Southeastern Regional Meeting of

the American Academy of Religion, Macon, Georgia, March 1997.

"An Overview and Analysis of Black Baptist Involvement in African Missions, 1815-1915," The Georgia Baptist Historical Society, Athens, Georgia, March 1997.

Respondent: Papers, African American Religion in the South Session, Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Nashville, Tennessee, April 1997.

“James Walker Hood and Mainstream Black Biblical Interpretation, 1865-1918: With a Focus on Millennialism and Racial Identity,” National/Annual

Meeting, the Society for Biblical Literature, Orlando area, Florida, November 1998.

“Black Protestantism and Anti-Catholicism, 1880-1920: With a Focus on James Walker Hood of the AME Zion Church,” Winter Meeting, the American

Society of Church History and American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 1999.

“Women’s Ordination Controversy in the AME Zion Church: A Founder’s Day Address,” Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, February 2000. Invited.

“James Walker Hood, The AME Zion Church, and Biblical Interpretation,” Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, NC, February 2000. Invited.

“Major Issues facing African American Religion in the Twenty-First Century,” National Conference on the Future Shape of Black Religion, Wright State University, March 17, 2000. Invited.

Workshop Leader and Panelist for National Conference on the Future Shape of Black Religion, Wright State University, March 18, 2000. Invited.

“An Overview of African American Religious History,” A GSAMS (telecast) Presentation for Ms. Holland’s High School Religion Class, Sandy Creek

High School, Tyrone, GA, March 27, 2000. (Franklin College Outreach Program). Invited.

“Women’s Ordination Controversy in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1898-1900,” First United Methodist Church, Athens, GA, April 5, 2000. (Franklin College Outreach Program). Invited.

“Women’s Ordination in the AME Zion Church, Part II: Historical and Contextual Factors,” First United Methodist Church, Athens, GA,

April 12, 2000. (Franklin College Outreach Program). Invited.

“Promotion, Tenure, and the Black Academic,” Society for the Study of Black Religion, Atlanta, GA, April 2000.

“Black Baptists, African Missions, and Racial Identity, 1800-1915: A Case Study of African American Religion,” Southern Baptist Historical

Society, Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, May 2000 (Paper read by Society member because serious illness in family prevented attendance.). Invited.

Interviewed by senior producer June Cross for “This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys,” a PBS series examining the chronology of

the African American religious experience, UGA Chapel, Athens, GA, Interviewed July 12, 2000.

“An Introduction to Southern Religious History,” Coastal Georgia Historical Society, Chautauqua Series, St. Simons Island, GA, August 7, 2000. Invited.

“The Controversy over the Episcopacy in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1897-1905,” Church History Colloquium, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, November 9, 2000. Invited.

“Critical Review of African Americans and the Bible, ed. by Vincent Wimbush,” for the African-American Biblical Hermeneutics Section and

Ideological Criticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature, National Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 18, 2000. Invited.

“Critical Review of A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Fred Shuttlesworth by Andrew M. Manis,” for the

North American Religions Section and Afro-American Religious History Group, American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, Nashville,

TN, November 20, 2000. Invited.

“Black Baptists and World War II,” Baptist History and Heritage Society, Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL, May 2001.

“African American Christians and the African Mission Movement during the Nineteenth Century,” for the Munich-Freising International Conference on World Christianity (‘Transcontinental Links in the History of Non-Western Christianit