Judith Weisenfeld
@judithweisenfeld.com
Scholar of African American religious history & religion and race in America.
Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
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SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
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I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai.
papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...
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Extremely excited to have the great Ralph Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social coming to Penn to speak on Thursday!
Philly folks, come join us!
Philly folks, come join us!
Our next Religious Studies colloquium event!
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Extremely excited to have the great Ralph Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social coming to Penn to speak on Thursday!
Philly folks, come join us!
Philly folks, come join us!
This has been a devastating loss for so many in the Princeton community and beyond. Alison was a wonderful scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, and community member and it was a privilege to have known her.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This has been a devastating loss for so many in the Princeton community and beyond. Alison was a wonderful scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, and community member and it was a privilege to have known her.
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A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Bomb threats at schools in New Jersey where people were voting. 😡😡
Bomb threats close some N.J. polling locations
Polling places in seven counties are affected, though officials say the threats are not credible.
www.nj.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bomb threats at schools in New Jersey where people were voting. 😡😡
@wheatleyjt.bsky.social has a new book coming out. Check out *American Fanatics: Religion, Rebellion, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century* (NYU Press). If you pre-order from his local independent bookstore, you can get a discount and a signed copy! #AmRel
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@wheatleyjt.bsky.social has a new book coming out. Check out *American Fanatics: Religion, Rebellion, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century* (NYU Press). If you pre-order from his local independent bookstore, you can get a discount and a signed copy! #AmRel
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Publication day for Wakara's America!
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Publication Day for Wakara's America!
Here are ways you can engage and support this vital scholarship.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Publication day for Wakara's America!
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Absolutely parents had to be involved.
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Absolutely parents had to be involved.
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The Africana Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh invites apps to the Chair in Africana Studies. The position is for a tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Full Professor and will begin in January 2026, pending budgetary approval.
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Faculty Professor - Full-Time
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Africana Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh invites apps to the Chair in Africana Studies. The position is for a tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Full Professor and will begin in January 2026, pending budgetary approval.
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The program in Africana Studies and the department of Religion at Washington and Lee University invite applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The program in Africana Studies and the department of Religion at Washington and Lee University invite applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor.
apply.interfolio.com/176701
apply.interfolio.com/176701
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
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A surprise donation of more than 3,000 African American quilts to a California museum is helping to rewrite history—and prompting a race to preserve it. news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
news.artnet.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A surprise donation of more than 3,000 African American quilts to a California museum is helping to rewrite history—and prompting a race to preserve it. news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...
If you're around Princeton on November 6, come hear Sally Promey talk about her new book, *Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display*
Registration required: religion.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Registration required: religion.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you're around Princeton on November 6, come hear Sally Promey talk about her new book, *Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display*
Registration required: religion.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Registration required: religion.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 50% on books & journal issues now through November 9 with coupon code FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A great program is in trouble due to direct, political interference by administration. Jewish Studies is only to be allowed to serve the purposes of the U.S. and Israeli states.
Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.
Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.
Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say
Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”
www.idsnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A great program is in trouble due to direct, political interference by administration. Jewish Studies is only to be allowed to serve the purposes of the U.S. and Israeli states.
Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.
Brought to you once again by the embattled student journalists of the Indiana Daily Student.
This beautiful work is so worth your time. It is an amazing resource for #AcRel scholars, teachers, students and anyone interested in the history of progressive Christianity, religion and sexuality in America, and more.
Very delighted that this project, so many years in the making, is out in the world today. Listen to learn more about AIDS, about progressive religion, and about how a community gets through a crisis. We all need to know more about that last thing. slate.com/podcasts/whe...
When We All Get To Heaven
A queer church faces AIDS in 1980s and '90s San Francisco.
slate.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This beautiful work is so worth your time. It is an amazing resource for #AcRel scholars, teachers, students and anyone interested in the history of progressive Christianity, religion and sexuality in America, and more.
Congratulations to my Princeton Religion colleague, Leora Batnitzky, and co-editors on this publication (that features a chapter by Princeton Religion graduate alum @rachelbgross.bsky.social).
New book — The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies, ed. by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman.
#jewishstudies
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#jewishstudies
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October 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Congratulations to my Princeton Religion colleague, Leora Batnitzky, and co-editors on this publication (that features a chapter by Princeton Religion graduate alum @rachelbgross.bsky.social).
Link for donations to Western Alaska relief for those affected by the flooding through the Alaska Community Foundation.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Link for donations to Western Alaska relief for those affected by the flooding through the Alaska Community Foundation.
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'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'
'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'
'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
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Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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