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RELIGION, RESEARCH & NEW TRANSATLANTIC LEARNING: AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA OF THE AMERICAS

Jualynne E. Dodson

Sociology Department dodsonj2@msu.edu

I proposel to mentor a post-graduate from the MSU Alliance for African Partnership Program within the framework of the African Atlantic Research Team of which I am the founding director. In addition to sharing my professional networks with such a junior scholar, I also wish to share the pleasure, excitement, and serious work of conducting disciplined social science research with African descendants in the Americas as well as with Africans on the continent. The scholar and I would jointly conceptualize, design, and hopefully investigate a select Africa inspired religious tradition and practices. In the African Diaspora of the Americas there are many such traditions from which to choose. Also, given the growing migration of African citizens to the Americas, there is an equally increasing number of religious practices that have contemporarily transferred from the continent with at least one published volume (Manglos-Weber 2017) on the phenomenon. With guidance, the scholar will accomplish independent reading before we embark on conceptualizing and designing a research project on religion and African and/or African descendants. The Alliance scholar will devote part of the resident year deepening her understanding of research skills, including various approaches and techniques; enhancing analytical perspectives and tools that assist the work; further clarification of theoretical developments in religious studies and, when possible, accompanying me to professional gatherings e.g., the November meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Beyond qualitative field research methods that I prefer, the junior scholar’s assignments will include participation in MSU classes and workshops to enhance her familiarity with quantitative social science methods as well as exposure to encounters with pedagogical skills. Each of these categories of work can be exceptionally helpful for designing projects related to community needs and/or policy recommendations. Work with me also will introduce the scholar to agencies whose datasets specialize in religion and society: e.g. Joyce Foundation, Lily Endowment, Pew Foundation, Luce Foundation and more. This can allow joint identification of existing datasets from which to conduct secondary analysis, should the scholar desire. Alternatively, the Alliance participant could produce an independent dataset, based on interest and available group populations with whom to employ quantitative methods. Depending on her preferences, data gathering or pre-testing of data instruments could begin. Either way, the year will provide a strong introduction to religious research that can be transported to her professional life in her home country.

Curriculum Vitae JUALYNNE E. DODSON

509 East Circle Drive 300 Berkey Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

dodsonj2@msu.edu

Warren Deem Institute Educational Management, Columbia University School of Business, New York, New York. BA, MS, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, California Sociology, Religion, Social Organizations, Personality Development.

EMPLOYMENT 2005 – Present Professor, Department of Sociology, Graduate Program in African American & African Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Sabbatical: Writing, publishing, professional national and international commitments, 2018. 2003 – 2005 Professor, Religious Studies, African American & African Studies Graduate Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. 2002 – 2003 Distinguish John Hannah Visiting Professor, Center for Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: Fall-Spring Semester 2002 Visiting Professor, African American Studies and Women’s Studies, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine: Spring Semester. 1996-Present

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Founding Director, African Atlantic Research Team, University of Colorado and Michigan State University. 1992 – 2002 Associate Professor, Departments of Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Off Campus Sabbatical Year, 1999. Visiting Professor, African American Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 1990 – 1991 Senior Research Associate, Center for Study of Race, Ethnicity and Culture: African American Studies Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 1989-1990 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Hunter College, CUNY, New York. 1982 – 1988 Dean of Seminary Life, Union Theological Seminary, New York City. 1982 -- 1988 Associate Professor, Department of Church and Society, Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

WORKS IN PROGRESS Book Review: Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion, Véronique Altglas and Matthew Wood (eds.), Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. “The African Diaspora: Religious Practices;” Invited/commissioned entry accepted for publication to SAGE International Encyclopedia of Religion, Adam Possamai, General Editor. “The African Methodist Episcopal Church: Denominational Development” accepted for publication, Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press. Qualitive Research and Religion;” Invited/commissioned entry accepted for publication to SAGE International Encyclopedia of Religion, Adam Possamai, General Editor. Book Manuscript: Ruth Simms Hamilton and The African Diaspora. Tenure Review, Pennsylvania State College, PA. Tenure Review, Baruch College, NY.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS On-Going

Elected North American Representative, Board of Directors Research Committee #22, International Sociology Association. Elected Council Member, Association for Sociology of Religion. Invited Member, Editorial Board, SAGE International Encyclopedia of Religion. Member Executive Committee, African American & African Graduate Studies Program, Michigan State University. 2016 A. Wade Smith Award, Lifetime Teaching, Mentoring and Service, Association of Black Sociologists.

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Plenary Speaker, Trans-Atlantic Roundtable on Religion & Race, 6th Bi-Annual Conference, Trinidad. Keynote Speaker, Fourth Annual Walter Rodney Series, Kennesaw University, at Clark Atlanta University, GA. 2015 to Present Ambassador, American Academy of Religion 2014 - 2017 Elected North American Representative, Board of Directors, Research Committee #22 of the International Sociology Association. 2012 Nominated, University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, not selected. Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting, Society for Study of Black Religion, “Non-linear Sacrality of Time: Implications for Studies of African Descendants’ Religiousness,” New Orleans, LA. Travel Grant, Society for Scientific Study of Religion, research in the Dominican Republic; Summer. 2011 Keynote Speaker, “Religion, the Americas, and African Descendants: What Do We Truly Know,” Annual Meeting, William E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series, African American Studies and Research Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Keynote Speaker, “Studying Religion and the African Diaspora,” School of Social Transformation, Department of African & African American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 2010 Travel Research Grant, University of Florida, Gainesville, research in Caribbean Collection, Summer. Recognition Award, NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Program Enhancement in the Social Sciences, Michigan State University Chapter, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Nominee & National Semi-Finalist, Council for Advancement and Support of Education. U.S. Professor of the Year Award, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Recognition Award, Outstanding Mentoring with Non-Traditional Students, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2009 Keynote Speaker, “African Diaspora in Spanish Speaking Caribbean: Cuba,” Annual Symposium, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. Individual Recognition Award, Advancing Global Competency, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2008 Keynote Speaker, “Spiritual Work in Oriente Cuba: Political Economy of Religion & Tourism,” Symposium for Transnational & Global Assessment of Cultural Contact: Interdisciplinary, Historical, and Sociological Perspectives; Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden. Excellence in Diversity Team Award, Demonstrated Outstanding Leadership and Creativity as Director, African Atlantic Research Team. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2006

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Outstanding Faculty Recognition, Michigan State University, Senior Undergraduate Class Council, East Lansing, MI. 2005 Keynote Speaker, “Sacred Spaces: Afro Cuban Religious Traditions Today,” Denison Goodspeed Lecture Series, Denison University, Granville, OH. 2002 Distinguished Visiting Professor John A. Hannah Award, Integrative Studies for Arts & Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2001 Keynote Presentation, “Race and Gender Intersections in Academia: Women Presidents as Leaders,” Symposium on Outstanding Women: Recognizing Women in Academia. Bennett College, Greensboro, NC. Keynote Address, “Sociology: Grounding for Personal Participation,” Department of Sociology Graduation. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. 2000 Academic Excellence in Teaching Recognition Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Keynote Speaker, “Religion and Empire,” Africana Studies and Latin American Studies. University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ. 1980 Honorary Member Tuskegee Airmen, Atlanta, GA.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION Books

2018 Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora, Editors; William Ackah, Jualynne Dodson and Drew Smith, Routledge Press, Studies in Religion Series.

Book Launching presentation, University of London 2008 Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.

Nominated, Book Award, American Academy of Religion. Not selected. Book Launching presentation, Caribbean Studies Association.

2002 Engendering Church: Women, Power, and African Methodism, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, Inc.

Time gap represents re-focusing academic agenda to Sociology of Religion. 1983 Afro-Centric Education: Toward a Non-Deficit Perspective in Services to Families & Children, Nashville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. 1982 A Sourcebook in Child Welfare: Serving Black Families and Children, Sylvia Sims Gray and Lynn Nybell Curriculum co-editors, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

Peer Reviewed Published Articles and Book Chapters *Articles written with MSU graduate students

2019 “Black Theology Project: Organizational Endowments and Intellectual Apparatus – theologian Rev. Dr. James Cone,” Journal of Africana Religions, in press.

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2018 “Church Women’s Legacy of Power: U.S. African Methodist,” Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora, Routledge Press, Studies in Religion Series. “Contextualizing Women and Distinct Religious Practices in Oriente Cuba,” in New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Unchartered Themes and Alternative Representations, Michigan State University Press. 2016 “So Just What is “Diaspora” in The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/record-high-global-migration-may-give-new-meaning-to-diaspora-59365 “Neighborhood, Festival, and Ethnography - The African Diaspora in the Americas: Extended Comparative Essay” for Transforming Anthropology. -- Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro’s Cuba by Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press: Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival by Jean Muteba Rahier; and The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion by Stephan Palmié. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press. 2015 “Cuba’s Distinct Religious Traditions” in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by George Ritzer. Maiden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Transforming Research & Academic Thinking, Harriette Pipes McAdoo: An Intellectual Biography, Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. “On Roy Bryce LaPorte, Women, Power and Church: A Research Scholar Meets the African Diaspora in the Caribbean.” Wadabagei, Journal of the Caribbean, October. “Qualitative Field Research – Methods and Theory,” Method(e)s African Social Sciences Methodology/Revue africaine de méthodlogie des sciences sociales, Journal, Council Development Social Science Research in Africa: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23754745.2015.1017292. 2014

*Montgomery, B.L., J. E. Dodson and *S. M. Johnson, “Guiding the Way: Mentoring Graduate Students and Junior Faculty for Sustainable Academic Careers.” SAGE Open (October-December), doi: 10.1177/2158244014558043. 2013 Dodson J.E., “Sociological Study of the African Diaspora,” Proceedings, 7th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece: Athens Institute, Education and Research, #423. 2012

……… and *S. A. Zaid, “Collective, Long-Term, Intermittent Immersion for Religion Research in Cuba,” Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion, Linda Woodhead, editor, Oxford University Press: London, UK. 2011 “African Diaspora Studies & Religion,” OFO: Journal, Transatlantic Studies, vol.1, no 1: 3-26. “African Descendent Women and Religion: Diaspora in Oriente Cuba” in Women and New and

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Africana Religions. Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian, Martin, Darnise C. Olademo, Oyeronke, eds. Praeger Publishers, Imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., pgs. 167-190. “U.S. African American Denominations in Cuba,” El protestantismo en la isla de Cuba, Compendio histórico desde sus orígenes hasta principios del siglo xxi, auspiciada por la Cátedra de Filosofía e Historia del Seminario Evangélico de Teología y la Editorial Caminos del Centro Memorial de Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Havana, Cuba. 2009

*Dodson, J. E. and S. M. Johnson, “Interacting with Spirits: Intangible Practices of Oriente Cuba,” Conference Proceedings of UNESCO Conference on Sharing Cultures, “Intangible Heritage,” Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, pgs. 187-192. Dodson, J. E., B. Montgomery-Kaguri, and L. Brown, ““Take the Fifth:” Mentoring Students Whose Cultural Communities Were Not Historically Structured into U.S. Higher Education,” Innovative Higher Education, vol. 34:3, pgs. 185-199. 2004 Dodson, J. E., “An African Core to Cuba’s Humanitarian Programs: ‘What You Get Is Beyond What You See’,” Sage Race Relations Abstracts, vol. 28 (2): 5-31, Institute of Race Relation: UK. 2002 “English-Speaking Caribbean Migrants in Cuba: The Case of Mount Sinai Church in Banes,” Proceedings of Second Seminar on Intra-Caribbean Migration, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies: University of the West Indies Press. 1999 “Encounters in the African Atlantic World: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cuba,” Between Race & Empire: African-Americans Before the Cuban Revolution, Lisa Brock and Digna Castañes Fuertes, editors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, pgs. 85-103. 1998 Williams, D. R., E. Griffith, J. Young, C. Collins, and J. E. Dodson, “Structure and Provision of Services in New Haven Black Churches,” Cultural Diversity and Mental Health.

I was an expert contributor for this article. 1997 Dodson, J. E., “Conceptualizations of African American Families” in Black Families 3rd Edition, Harriette Pipes McAdoo ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., pgs. 67-82. "Women’s Ministries and the African Methodist Episcopal Tradition" in Religious Institutions and Women’s Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream. Catherine Wessinger ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, pgs. 124-138. 1995 Dodson, J. E. and C. T. Gilkes, “There’s Nothing Like Church Food, Food and the U.S. Afro-Christian Tradition: Re-Membering Community and Feeding the Embodied S/spirit(s) in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LXIII/3, Fall, pgs. 519-538. 1994 Dodson, J. E., “U.S. African American Denominations in Cuba,” Contributions in Black Studies, No. 12, pgs. 33-38. 1993 "Anna Arnold Hedgeman," "Fannie Jackson Coppin, and "Amanda Berry Smith," Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, New York, New York: Macmillan Publishing. 1992

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"Nineteenth Century Preaching Women of the AME Church; Sara J. Hatcher Duncan, Lena Doolin-Mason, Sarah Allen, Jarena Lee," in Black Women In the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, D. C. Hine and E. B. Brown, eds. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, pgs. 754, 22, 707.

Invited Published Writing 2018 “African Heritage in Cuba: Traveling with Radical Philosophers” in E-Book, Association of Radical Philosophers. “A Prayer From the African Diaspora of the Caribbean,” World Council of Churches’ Week Of Prayer For Christian Unity, Geneva, Switzerland. 2016 Peer Reviewer, "Towards a Religious History of the Black Atlantic: Charles H. Long’s Significations and New World Slavery" for the Journal of Religious History. 2015 Editing Author, “African American Theologians, Religious Scholars, Pastors and Activists Endorsement Statement” of United Nation’s Resolution 68/237, Demanding Churches, Seminaries, and International Ecumenical Bodies Break Silence on Matters Pertaining to the Well-being of Peoples of African descent, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Francisco, CA. 2012 “Cuba’s Distinct Religious Traditions: Better Social Changes Come Oh Sooo Slowly,” The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, Stanley D. Brunn, ed., Springer Press. “Charles H. Long (1926),” Encyclopedia of Global Religion, Marj Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roff, editors, Los Angeles, California: Sage, pgs. 715-716. “Abakuá Secret Society,” Encyclopedia of Global Religion, Marj Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roff, editors, Los Angeles, California: Sage, pgs. 2-3. 2010

*Dodson, J. E. and S. M. Johnson, “Indigenous Religious Traditions,” Introduction To World Religion Communities And Cultures, Jacob Neusner, editor, Nashville, Tennessee: Abington Press, pgs. 283-290. 2009 “African Descendant Women and Religion: Diaspora in Oriente Cuba,” Women and New and Africana Religions, L. Ashcraft-Eason, D. C. Martin, and O. Olademo, editors, Santa Barbara, California: Praeger Publishers, Imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., pgs. 167-190. 2007 “On Thinking About and Research of African American Family Life in the United States,” Black Families Fourth Edition, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, editor. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications Inc., pgs. 51-68. ““Madre Ñkisi,” Power Unseen is No Less: Exploring Women of African Descent, Power, and Religious Participation: The Case of Cuba,” Women and Religion, M. Moravcikova, editor, Slovakia: The Bratislava Institute for State-Church Relations, pgs. 59-79. 2005

“Jarena Lee,” Black Women in America, Second Edition, Volume 2, D. Clark Hine, editor, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, pg. 236.

2004

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“The (C. Eric) Lincoln Legacy: Challenges and Considerations,” How Long This Road: Race, Religion and the Struggle for Freedom, A. B. Pollard and L. H. Whelchel, editors, New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, pgs. 77-87. 20 “Cuba, African-Derived Religions,” Encyclopedia of African and Africa-American Religions, S. D. Glazier, editor, New York, New York: Routledge, pgs. 107-110. 2000 “African-Derived Religions of Cuba,” Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions, L. Murphy, J. J. Milton, and G. L. Ward, editors, New York, New York: Garland publishers.

Book Reviews 2018 The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism by Bianca C. Williams: Duke University Press: NC. Joining the Choir: Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Ghanaians by N. D. Manglos-Weber for Review of Religious Research. DOI: 10.1007/S13644-018-0359-0. 2017 “Lusospheres: Global Trajectories of Brazilian,” review of book proposal, Bloomsbury Publishing. Secularization and Religious Innovation in The North Atlantic World edited By David Hempton and Hugh McLeod, Oxford University Press, for Journal of Religion. Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry by Philip A. Howard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, for The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Vol 74, #3, July. “Luella White and the Politics of Consumption in South Africa during the 1930s,” article for publication in Gastronomica. 2016 Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization. Edited by Thomas J. Csordas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press for Transforming Anthropology. 2015 Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States by Olena Nikolayenko, Routledge: New York, for Journal International Sociology Reviews; 4-6. 2014 Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa by David Chidester, Journal of Religion: December. The Sociology of Religion: A Canadian Perspective, by Lorne L. Dawson and Joel Thiessen, for Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Invisible Agents Spirits in a Central African History by David M. Gordon, Ohio University Press, for Journal of Religion, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2014.980168. Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States by Olena Nikolayenko, Journal of Religion. 2013 Black Church Giving: An Analysis of Ideological, Programmatic, and Denominational Effects, for Sage.

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Blacks, Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions, by Jason E. Shelton & Michael O, Emerson, Journal for African American History. 2012 Eric Williams & the Making of the Modern Caribbean by Colin A. Palmer, Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Prize. Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, Jane G. Landers, Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Prize, Caribbean Studies Association. Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, by Frank Guridy, Journal of African American History. 2011 Family Configurations: A Structural Approach to Family Diversity by Eric D. Widmer, Journal Religion. Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora, A. Adogame and J. V. Spickard eds. 2010 God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by Mark A. Noll, Journal Religion. 2009 The Burden of Black Religion by Curtis Evans, Journal Religion. 2008 Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807, John J. Clune Jr., Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 10 #2 November. 2007 Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought by Darnise C. Martin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 2006 Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1865-1900, Julius H. Bailey, Journal of African American History. Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia’s “Little Italy,” Richard N. Juliani, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 36; no.6. Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice, Karim Murji & John Solomos eds, Journal of Inter-Cultural Studies. 2005 Wizards & Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity & Tradition, Stephan Palmié, Religion: An Academic Press Journal. 2004 Santeriá Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion, David Brown, North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History. AfroCuban Religions by Miguel Barnet, North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History. The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Search by Miguel A. De La Torre for Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Winter. 2002 Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois, by Gerald Horne. AME Review, January-March. 2001

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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 by Catherine A. Brekus, The Journal of Religion 82, no.1. Black Judas: William Hanibal Thomas the American Negro, by John David Smith, Kayden Book Prize, Boulder, Colorado. Varieties of African-American Religious Experience, by Anthony B. Pinn, North Star: Journal of African American Religious History. 2000 Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelists, by Adrienne Israel, Journal of Religion.

Professional Reports Written Each was a requested Invitation

2016 Full Professor promotion review, Sociology Department, SUNY Stony Brook, NY: written report submitted. 2015 Review for publication “A Final Chapter in the life of Jarene Lee (178-1864), First Woman Preacher in the AME Church” for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: written report. Review for publication, Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora, Edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Carolyn M. Jones Medine, Palgrave Macmilian Publisher: written report. 2014 Reviewed twenty-one (21) research funding proposals, American Council of Learned Societies: written reports. Tenure Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: extensive written report. African American Studies Program Review, Purdue University, joint written report S. Adell, J. Dodson and J. Stewart. 2012 External Review, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, written report. Expert evaluator, African Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion: written report. External Review, Promotion and Tenure, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University: written report. External Review, Promotion and Tenure, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO: written report. Report on students’ potential participation in Las Piedras Project that assists Haitian Refugees in the Dominican Republic, Graduate Program in African American & African Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. External Review, Department African American & African Studies, Division Dean of Arts and Humanities, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH: joint written report Dodson, J. E., E. Julien, and M. Pinkney.

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2011 External Review, Department of African American Studies’ Dean of Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: written report. Promotion Review, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: written report. Program Review, African Religions’ Section, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA: written report. 2010 Promotion and Tenure Review, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence: written report. Full Professor Review, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC: written report. Promotion and Tenure Review, Department of Sociology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: written report. 2009 “Strategic Academic Exchanges Travel: Peruvian African Descendants, Strategic Partnership,” Funding Report, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: written report. MSU-UFBA Partnership: A Response Report, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: written report. External Review, African American Studies Program for Dean of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN: joint written report; Adell, S., J. E. Dodson, and S. K. Cha-Jua. 2007 Full Professor Review, Department of History, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH: written report. 2002 Program Review, African American Studies, Bates College, Lewiston, ME: written report.

2000 Promotion and Tenure Review, Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College, New York, NY: written report.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS & PARTICIPATION *Included planning and participation of MSU Graduate Students

2019 American Academy of Religion Association for Study of Worldwide African Diaspora Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race International Sociology or Religion 2018 “The African Diaspora: Context for Sociology of Religion,” American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO.

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“Reflections from The African Diaspora: Power, Violence and Justice” presented to Research Committee #56 at Bi-Annual Congress of International Sociology Association. Toronto, CA. Invited: “The Non-Option of “Exile”: A Sociologist and Ralph Ellison” presented to Ellison Society of the American Literature Association; San Francisco, CA. “The Politics of Black Space in the Academy,” Invited presentation to Annual Lecture MA Symposium in Social and Cultural Geography, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 2017 *“You Don’t Know Cuba If You Don’t Know AfroCubans of Oriente,” 9th Biennial Conference, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Seville, SP, November. “The African Diaspora: Sociology of Religion and Theory.” Presented to International Society, Sociology of Religion Annual Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, July. Invited: “International Economic Exchange: Who’s Exchanging – Whose Economics, Perspectives from the African Diaspora,” International Symposium of Economics, Xi’an China, March. 2016 Sociological Study of the African Diaspora: Sociologist Ruth Simms Hamilton, presented to Annual Meeting, Association of Black Sociologists, Memphis, TN. October. *“Religious Diversities, Creations and Responses in the Americas: Africa-Inspired Religious Expressions in Cuba and the Caribbean,” Sixth Meeting Trans-Atlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, Trinidad and Tobago, August. “Visioning A Better World: Lessons from The African Diaspora,” International Sociological Association Forum, Vienna, Austria, July. “Lived Mentoring Experiences with Women of Color,” National Research Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April. Invited: “Research Report, The African Diaspora: Spanish Speaking Caribbean,” Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA, April. Invited: “Women Present in Organizing the AME Church: 1791-1843,” A General Conference of Freedom’s Prophets: AMEs Reworking Trails to Freedom, the 200th Anniversary Celebration organization, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA, March. 2015 Invited Presenter, “Proverbial Global Question in the African Diaspora: What to do with/for African Descendants?” 5th Forum, Chinese Urban Management: Risk Management in Urbanization, Center for Chinese Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, December. *Invited Organizer - “Mentoring for Our Future,: Graduate Students and Post-Docs & Junior Faculty (2 Sessions),” Association for Worldwide Study of African Diaspora, Charleston, SC, November. “Charles H. Long: Intellectual Godfather to the African Atlantic Research Team,” American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November.

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“Broader Than Location: The African Diaspora,” Black Special Relationship: African American Scholarship Impact on Black Intellectual Life in Britain, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK, October. Invited Session Chair & Rapporteur, 33rd Conference International Sociological Association, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July.

Invited Keynote Presenter, “On Roy Bryce Laporte, Women, Power and Church: Remarks Made at His Memorial,”, 30th Anniversary of Megar Evers College and Memorial to Roy Bryce La Porte, Megar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY: March. 2014 Invited Panelist “Contextualizing Women and Distinct Religious Practices in Oriente Cuba,” Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, University Church of St Mary, Oxford University, London, UK: December. Respondent, The Art/s of Interpretation Interpret Session II, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA: November. Session Organizer, “Studying Religion in the African Diaspora: Cross-Cultural Research Methods,” Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Indianapolis, IN: October. Invited Presenter, "Not Forgetting Who You/We Are: Positioning for The/A Job," Annual Meeting of National Academy of Science’s Ford Foundation’s Fellows’ Program, Beckman Center, Irvine CA: September. Round Table Presentation, “Lessons Learned for Studying the African Diaspora: Charles Long, Ruth Simms Hamilton,” XVIII World Congress, International Sociological Association, Yokohama, Japan, July. “Politics of Religion, Modernity and Religious Framework: Ruth Simms Hamilton,” Fourth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Universidad Nacional Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica, April. 2013 Invited Plenary Presentation, “Church Women’s Legacy of Power: U.S. African Methodist,” Conference on Black Church in 21st Century Captivities, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, July. “Culture, Identity, and Cuba’s Distinct Religious Practices: Caribbean Crossroads,” First Latin America Conference; Dublin, Ireland, May. “On Sociological Study of The African Diaspora,” 7th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece, May. “’More Than Jargon or a Sound Bite:’ Theoretical Propositions for Studying the African Diaspora,” Annual Meeting of the National Council Black Studies, Indianapolis, IN: March. 2012 Invited Presenter, “Activist Scholarship in Our Backyards, Phase II: International Outreach, Making and Keeping Them,” Annual Meeting of Ford Foundation’s Fellows, Beckman Center, Irvine CA: October.

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“The African Diaspora: Challenges to Research in the Field,” Migration Without Boundaries Conference, International Studies Center, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI: October. Panel presentation, “Religion and Politics in Cuba: The Distinct Religious Traditions,” Annual Meeting of Association Sociology of Religion, Denver, CO: August. Panel presentation, “Justice and Democracy for Cuba’s Distinct Religions: An Assessment,” Second International Sociology Association Forum, Buenos Aires, Argentina: August. Panel presentation, “Mentoring & Teaching: Pedagogical Experiences with the African Atlantic Research Team,” 36th Annual Meeting of National Council of Black Studies. Atlanta, GA: March.

2011 Session Chair, “Music, Letter, and Religion as Performance, Protest, and Protection in Columbia and Cuba,” Afro-Latin Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, ID: December. Panel Organizer and Chair, “Studying the African Diaspora: Synthesis, Research, Pedagogies, and Dissemination,” Bi-Annual Meeting Association for Study of Worldwide African Diaspora, Pittsburgh, PA: November. *Panel Organizer and Chair, “Implementing Study of the African Diaspora: Taking Ruth Hamilton’s Paradigm to Practice: Pedagogical Guide Posts for Teaching African Diaspora Within African American Studies,” Bi-Annual Meeting Association for Study of Worldwide African Diaspora, Pittsburgh, PA: November. *Presidential Invited Research Panel Organizer, “Studying Religion in the African Diaspora: Lessons from Ruth Simms Hamilton,” Annual Meeting of Society for Scientific Study of Religion. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: October. Invited Presenter, “Religion in Cuba After the Fall of the Soviet Union,” Max Planck Institute’s Center on Religious Diversity, Göttingen, Germany: May. Invited Presenter, “Implications from Work in the African Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Global Research,”, International Conference on “Visions and Perspectives: Global Studies in the 21st Century,” Nanjing University in Nanjing, China: May. Panel Chair, Annual Conference, National Council of Black Studies. Cincinnati, OH: March. *Panel presentation, “Pedagogical Experiences: Teaching African Diaspora Within African American Studies,” The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY: January. Panelist, “Caribbean Religious Multiplicity: Case of Oriente Cuba,” Schomburg Center Fellows, New York, NY: January. 2010 Panelist, “Religions Multiplicities from Africa Inspired Ethnicities: African Diaspora in Oriente Cuba” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA: November.

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Panelist, “Martin Luther King in Cuba,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, MD: October. Panelist, “On Religion and Multiple Practices in Cuba,” Conference of North American and Cuban Researchers, Havana, Cuba: June. Panelist, “Religious Multiplicity in Oriente Cuba,” Annual Meeting, Caribbean Studies Association, Barbados, West Indies: May. 2009 Panelist, “Religion and the African Diaspora: African Diaspora Studies and Religion,” Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Montreal, CA: November. Panelist “Moving Our Collective Work Forward, The Field of African Diaspora Studies,” Association for Study of WorldWide African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana: August. Panelist, “On Sensing Religion in the African Diaspora: Religion in Oriente Cuba,” 30th Meeting, International Society for Sociology of Religion, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: July. Panelist, “On Seeing Cuban Religions in Oriente Cuba,” 30th Meeting of the International Society for Sociology or Religion, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: July. 2008 “African Americans & Race in the United States,” Panelist, Trans-Atlantic Teaching Forum, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden: March. 2007 *Co-panelist, “Ñsambe, Somos y Somos: Toward Expanded Understandings of ‘Indigenous’ Religions,” Indigenous Religious Traditions’ Session, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C.: November. 2006 Panelist, “Dear Orula, How’s the Universe? Inter-actionist Perspective on Religion in Cuba.” American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C.; November. Session Chair, Annual Conference of Ford Fellows, Washington D.C.: October. Panelist, “Social Transformation and Religion: The Case of Cuba,” Association Black Sociologists, Montreal, CA: August. Panelist, “Sociology of Religion,” American Sociological Association Roundtable Session, Montreal, Canada: August. Panelist, “Madre Ñkisi: Power Not Seen Is No Less,” XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa: July. *Panel Organizer and Chair, “African Atlantic Research Team Roundtable: Research and Publishing Reports,” 26th Annual Festival del Caribe, Casa del Caribe. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba: July. *Co-coordinator and Discussant, “African descendants and African-based Religious Traditions in Cuba,” 28th Annual Seminar, Cuban and North American Philosophers and Social Scientists, Havana, and Santiago de Cuba: June & July.

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*Panel Moderator, “Conducting Cross-cultural International Research,” 3rd Annual Latin American & Caribbean Connections: Undergraduate Student Legacies & Transformations Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: April. Panelist, “The Professoriate and Academe,” Second Annual Black Scholars Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: February. Panelist, “Madre Ñkisi: Women, Power, and Religious Community: Report from the Field Research,” Annual Winter Meeting, Sociologist for Women in Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico: January. 2005 Respondent, “The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Africa,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA: November. Panelist, “Cuba’s International Humanitarian Programs: An African Core? “What You Get Is Beyond What You See,” Annual Meeting, Society for Scientific Study of Religion, Rochester, NY: November. Chair, “Andean Voices, African Roots: Discussion on Blackness, Community and Culture.” Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America, Inter-American Foundation & National Council of La Raza, Washington, D.C.: October. *Panelist, “Conceptualizing Beyond Colonial Mentality: Religions in Oriente Cuba,” Twenty-Fifth Annual Festival del Caribe, Casa del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba: July. Convener, “Representations of Death and Dying in Caribbean History,” Association of Caribbean Historians 37th Annual Conference, Cartagena, Colombia: May. Panelist, “Sacred Spaces Of Oriente Cuba: New Ways Of Conceptualizing?” Bi-Annual meeting, Collegium for African American Research, University of Tours, Tours, France: April. 2004 Panelist, “Sacred Spaces of Oriente, Cuba: Illustrated Presentation,” Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, Howard University, Washington, D.C.: September. Panelist, “On Doing Research Cross-Culturally: Religions in Cuba.” Annual Meeting of the Association of Black Sociologist, San Francisco, CA: August. Panelist, ““Mama, Look Wha’ Dey Done to My Song:” Rhythms of Reified Wrong.” Caribbean Soundscapes Conference, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: March. 2002 Panelist, “Vistas for Healing: African-based Traditions.” Healing in Urban America Symposium, Harvard University Divinity School. Cambridge, MA: September. Panelist, “Martin Luther King Jr. and Cuba,” Annual Conference of Cuban and North American Social Scientist, Havana, Cuba: June. Panelist, “Sacred Spaces of Cuba: African-Based Traditions,” Department of Sociology, Colby College, Waterville, ME: April.

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Panelist, “Mama, Look What ‘Dey Don’ to My Song: Reification and Santeria.” Invitational International Symposium, University of Maryland. College Park, MD; April. 2001 Invited Panelist, “The Omissions of C. Eric Lincoln,” C. Eric Lincoln Annual Symposium, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA: November. Panelist, “Social Significance of Martin Luther King Jr. in Cuba,” Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH: October. Panelist, “Gendered Identities: Can We Have a History of U.S. Religion,” Annual Meeting of Society for Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH: October.

*Panelist, Sacred Spaces: African-derived Religious Traditions of Cuba,” Religious Workshop, Annual Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba: July. Invited Panelist, “How Far Have We Come,” Annual Conference of North American & Cuban Philosophers & Social Scientists, Havana, Cuba: June. Invited Panelist, “The Spirituality of African American Women,” Annual Symposium, Black Women of Action, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO: March. Recruiting Seminar, “What is the African Atlantic Research Team,” Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: March. Invited Panelist, “Voices of the Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. in Cuba,” Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observances, Bates College Lewiston, ME: January. 2000 Panelist, “African-Derived Traditions in the Americas: Vistas for Healing Oppression,” Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Nashville, TN: November. *Panelist, “Cuba and International Humanitarian Projects,” Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Miami, FL: October. Chair, Religious Workshop, Annual Festival del Caribe. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba: July. Panelist, “Cuba, African Traditions and Social Transformation: Bringing Good to the World.” New England/Maritimes Spring Regional Conference. Boston, MA: April. Panelist, “African-based Religions in Cuba: Report from the Field,” Annual Meeting, Society for the Study of Black Religion, Atlanta, GA: April. Panelist, “Field Research Activities in Cuba,” Annual Campus Diversity Summit, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: February.

CREATIVE WORK 2014

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*Executive Editor, Shanti A. Zaid and Sonya Maria Johnson co-Editors; CubaOriente Web Site, cuboriente.matrix.msu.edu 2012

*Executive Editor; Sonya Maria Johnson, Crystal Nicole Eddins and William Escalante, Co-Editors; and Alyce C. Emory, Layout and Design. Re-conexõnes – Special Anniversary Edition: Official Newsletter of the African Atlantic Research Team, Winter, vol. 3, issue #4. East Lansing, MI, April. 2010 Editor, Re-conexõnes: Official Newsletter of the African Atlantic Research Team, spring/fall, vol. 2. issue #3, East Lansing, MI, December. 2007 Editor and A. C. Emory, Co-editor, Diaspora Visions, Global Poetic Perspectives, A Volume of Poetry and Photographs, East Lansing, MI: African Atlantic Research Team. Editor, Re-conexõnes: 10th Anniversary Newsletter of the African Atlantic Research Team. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, January. 2006

*Curator, Museum exhibition “Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery,” Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI: October—March. *Symposium “Timely Reflections—Plessy vs. Ferguson 110 Years Later: Implications in the Americas,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: October. *Executive Producer, AART images in MATRIX, data-based system for visual research, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI: October. 2003-2005 Mistress of Ceremonies, Annual “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Celebration: Jazz Spirituals, Prayer & Protest,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: January. 2004-Present

*Producer Designer, Academic Webpage, and DVD, African Atlantic Research Team, Michigan State University, Department of Sociology East Lansing, MI. 2003 This Far by Faith, Television Documentary Interview, “Women and the African Methodist Episcopal Church,” Blackside Production, Inc.: Washington, D.C. 2001-2000 Producer Designer, Academic Webpage, African Atlantic Research Team, University of Colorado Department of Ethnic Studies, Boulder, CO.

FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS 2016 “Diaspora Dialogues: Black Church in Cuba,” proposal to Henry Luce Foundation. Not awarded. “Diaspora Dialogues: Black Church in Cuba,” proposal to American Council of Learned Societies. Not awarded.

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Guggenheim Fellowship Foundation proposal, “Diaspora Dialogues: Black Church in Cuba.” Not awarded. 1998 Post-doctorate Fellow, Womanist Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 1997 Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellows’ Institute, Ogden, UT. 1991-1992 Lilly Foundation Research Fellowship, Center for Study of American Religion, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 1990 Ford Foundation Post-Doctorate Research and Writing Fellowship, Schomburg Center, New York, NY. 1980 Research Fellow for Applied Sociology, American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. 1977 Spencer Foundation Research Fellowship. Atlanta, GA. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (limited by space) 2011–2012 Principal Investigator, “Geo-Circularity in the African Diaspora of the Americas: Religious Workers. Jack Rand Research Grant,” Society for Scientific Study of Religion. 2010 Principal Investigator, “Geo-Circularity in the African Diaspora of the Americas: Religious Workers. Travel Research Grant,” University of Florida. 2009 Principal Investigator, “Strategic Academic Exchanges: Peruvian African Descendants, Strategic Partnership.” Travel Grant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: May. 2007 Principal Investigator, “Madre Ñkisi.,” Comparative Research, American Sociological Association. 2006 Principal Investigator, “Timely Reflections—Plessy vs. Ferguson 110 Years Later: Implications in the Americas.” Exhibition & Symposium, funded by MSU Office of the Provost Inclusive Excellence and Creating Greater Diversity Grant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2001 Principal Investigator, “Religious Healing Encounters.” A Research Symposium, funded by the Center for Humanities of University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. 2000 Principal Investigator, “African Religious Encounters in the Americas.” President’s Support for Recruitment and Retention of Minority and Women Faculty, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Principal Investigator, “African-Derived Religious Traditions of Cuba: Undergraduate Experiential Field-Research Travel.” Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Principal Investigator, “African Religious Encounters in the Americas.” Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. 1996

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Principal Investigator, “Implications in the Americas: Centennial Considerations of Plessy vs. Ferguson, Research, Museum Exhibition, and Academic Symposium.” Council on Research and Outreach Council Grant, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. STUDENTS MENTORED

Funded awards. Each student was a member of AART and the Team received the 2008 MSU Excellence in Diversity Award for Demonstrating Outstanding Leadership and Creativity. The majority of students are from U.S. domestic cultural communities, historically discriminated and excluded from higher education or are first-generation college.

Undergraduates 2005 - 2018 Ronald E. McNair Achievement Scholarships Escalante, William Shanti Zaid Michigan State University Award, Undergraduate Research Academic Competition Dinah George Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award Andrew Woodson Udall Foundation Scholarship Finalist 2017 Alex Manaia Marshall Scholarship for two-year study, London, United Kingdom Shanti Zaid College of Social Science Dean’s Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships 2017 JoVontae Butts Dinah George Alex Manaia Sean Lynch Ruth Simms Hamilton Award, MSU Sociology Department Gabriel Lotarski

Graduate students 2002- 2018 Big Ten Consortium Post-Graduate Fellowship, Sonya Maria Johnson PhD Candidacy Award, Michigan State University Graduate School 2018 Shanti Zaid State of Michigan’s Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Sonya Maria Johnson National Science Foundation, MSU Chapter, Alliance in Graduate Education and the iate William Escalante. Crystal Eddins Sonya Johnson. Shanti Zaid. Beranda Fermin TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship for Study of the African Diaspora. Sonya Johnson – 1st MSU graduate student to receive award. MSU University Enrichment Five-year Graduate Fellowship Shanti Zaid Sonya Johnson MSU King, Chavez, Parks Future Faculty Fellowship, dissertation stipend and benefits. Sonya Johnson Shanti Zaid Compton Africa Peace Fellowship Award, dissertation research Harry Odamtten MSU Summer Retention Fellowship, Pre-dissertation Research Alejandro Gradilla Mellani Mays Sonya Maria Johnson Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship Sonya Maria Johnson Blair Starnes National Science Foundation, Pre-dissertation field research Fellowship

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Crystal Eddins Sonya Maria Johnson Tinker Field Research Grant, Pre-dissertation Research Sonya Maria Johnson SERVICE 2019 Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan. Core member MSU Faculty of Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Committee member, sociology department Migration Thematic Unit. Board Member, Association for Sociology of Religion American Council of Learned Societies Invited, Chair, Mentoring Program Committee, Association for WorldWide Study of African Diaspora. 2018 - On-Going Ambassador to New Members, American Academy of Religion. Printed Materials and Art Works by and about African Descendants of the Americas’ African Diaspora, MSU Library, valued beyond $10,000. 2017 Presentation, Black Students’ Alliance, MSU College of Law 2016 Advisory Board, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. ‘Brown Bag’ Lecture, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Guest Lecturer, Integrative Studies in Social Science Classes, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Guest Lecturer, African American & African Studies’ Graduate Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2015 Invited Editing Author, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Francisco, California. 2014 to 2015 Invited Research Project Consultant, Centennial Celebration, Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church: Lansing, MI. 2013 Brown Bag Lecture, Department of Food and Agriculture, “An organization problem does not a research project make: Qualitative Field Research,” Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI. 2007 to 2012 Member and Chair, various committees, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. 2010 to 2011 Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan.

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2009 Program Advisory Committee, Cross-Campus Asian Studies Program, Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan. 2003 to 2005 Invited Women’s Advisory Committee to the Provost, Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan. PUBLIC DISCOURSE 2017 Research Co-ordinator “One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration, Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church, oldest Lansing AME congregation. 2015 “Our Time” Letter to the Editor, Time Magazine. 2012 “Blazing Trails in Sociology,” Footnotes, Newsletter, American Sociological Association- July/August. 2010, Invited Provincial Video Interviewee, “20 Years Attending Festival Del Fuego,” Casa del Caribe Anniversary, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 2009 “Religious Tradition,” Interview, High Priest of Palo Monte/Mayombe Santiago de Cuba: Rebelde Newspaper. 2008 Interviewee, “North American, Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists Research Network,” Radio Rebelde, Havana, Cuba, June. 2002 Response to “Seeing Syncretism in Cuba?” Letter to the Editor, Religious Studies News, American Academy of Religion Edition. 2001 “Pluralism and 125th Anniversary, University of Colorado,” Letter to the Editor, Colorado Daily. 2000 Radio Interviewee, “Religious Traditions and Performance of Cuba,” Exhibition and Book Launch, Compostella, Spain. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion; Association for Sociology of Religion; Association for Study of Worldwide African Diaspora; Caribbean Studies Association; International Sociology Association; International Society for Sociology of Religion; National Council of Black Studies; Society for Study of Black Religion; Ralph Ellison Society; Society for Scientific Study of Religion; Life Member, Association of Black Sociologists; American Sociological Association.

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