LeRhonda (Rhon) S. Manigault-Bryant Assistant Professor of Religion B.A. Duke University M.Div. Candler School of Theology (Emory Univ.) Ph.D. Emory University 215 Wingate Hall Telephone: (336) 758-5463 FAX: (336) 758-4462 Email

REL 101: Introduction to Religion
REL 390D: Womanist/Black Feminist Thought
REL 305/605: Ethnography of Religion
REL 268: Religion and Music

Publications:
In Press:
The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman Vol. 1: 1929-1936. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press (Research Contributor, Forthcoming 2009)

“Color-Blind America?” Religion Dispatches.November 19, 2008.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/election08/748/

Under Review:
Manuscript:  “Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time:” Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among
Gullah/Geechee Women

Article: “The Historian as Progressive: Mason Crum, the Gullah, and the Contradictions of Race”

In Preparation:
Article: “Funny Black Men, Fat Black Women: Masculinizing the Feminine in Popular Film”

Article: “Saved From Silence: Feminist Ethnography and the Re/Interpretation of Black Feminist Thought”

Article: “Women, Religion, and the Ethnographic Imagination”

Manuscript: Pushing Weight: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Implications of Image

Presentations:
Conference Presentations:
2010: Invited Panelist, “Troubling Black Religion: Changing Times and the Study of Black Religion,”
SECSOR, Atlanta, GA

2009:“Masculinizing the Feminine/Feminizing the Masculine: Women, Religion and Embodiment
in Contemporary Comedic Film,” AAR, Montréal, Canada

2007: “Talking to the Dead: Performative Memory as Living Practice among Gullah/Geechee
Women,” AAR, San Diego, CA

2006: “ ‘Layin’ Befuh de Lord ahn Seekin’ His Face’: Prayers, Dreams, and Visions as Modalities
of Religious Experience in the Narratives of Gullah Women,” SECSOR, Atlanta, GA

2006: “The Seeking Tradition among Gullah Women of James Island, South Carolina,”
Social Science Research Council, Philadelphia, PA

Invited Presentations
2009: “ ‘It’s Not Science Rasputia:’ Masculinity, Femininity, and Representation in Norbit,”
Treehouse Lecture Series, Wake Forest University

2009: “Down Payment on the Dream: A Cautionary Warning,” Library Lecture Series,
Wake Forest University                             

2008: “The Language You Cry In,” National History Day Summer Teacher’s Institute,
Savannah, GA

2008: “Spaces ‘Over There’: Death in the Lives of Gullah/Geechee Women,” University
of Virginia

2007: “Listening to the Dead Speak: Gullah/Geechee Women and the Ethnographic
Imagination,” Race and Religion Workshop, University of Chicago

2006: “Scales of Inquiry: Women, Religious History, and the Ethnographic Imagination,”
Williams College