Articles
“It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.”
— Lauren Willig (The Deception of the Emerald Ring, 2007, p. 9)
Selected Articles
Find below a selection of scholarly, peer-reviewed, published articles. Click on the image to visit the journal website where the article is published. For a full listing of all published articles, please view my C.V.
“‘Buddhism won't be an Asian thing anymore’: U.S. Periodical Representations of Buddhism and Whiteness.” Contemporary Buddhism (forthcoming)
“‘Angels which Thou hast created of snow and of fire’: Bahá'í Angelology and God’s Dialogic Relationship to Humanity.” Harvard Theological Review (forthcoming)
“The Silent Warrior: George Goodman, the Bahá’í Faith, and Racial Activism.” (w/ W. Terry Robinson) Journal of Black Religious Thought (forthcoming)
“Above the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Otherworldly Perspective and a New Racial Order.” (w/ Christopher White) Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2024)
“The Sociological Spirituality of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Prayers for Dark People.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2023)
“‘Black people don’t love nature’: White Environmentalist Imaginations of Cause, Calling, and Capacity.” Theory & Society (2023)
“How and Why White People say Contradictory Things about Race.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)
“How Blackness Matters in White Lives.” Symbolic Interaction (2021)
“Debating Du Bois’s Darkwater: From Hymn of Hate to Pathos and Power.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2021)
“‘The Souls of White Folk’ (1920-2020): A Century of Peril and Promise.” Ethnic and Racial Studies Review (2020)
“Gender and Race in the 2020 Election: From the Pathos of Prediction to the Power of Possibility.” Sociological Forum 35(special issue) (2020)
“Whither Whiteness? The Racial Logics of the Kerner Report and Modern White Space.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (2018)
“Of Riots and Racism: Fifty Years since the Best Laid Schemes of the Kerner Commission (1968-2018).” Sociological Forum (2018)
“Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá’í Theology and Critical Sociology.” Journal of Bahá’í Studies (2017)
“Race, Racial Inequality, and Biological Determinism in the Genetic and Genomic Era.” (w/ W. Carson Byrd) The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2015)
“We’ve Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2015)