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🏫 professor, writer, lover | ✨ all things black, queer, archival, artsy |📚 author of *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans* http://a.co/d/4VuHlQZ

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A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible.

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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
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July 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Congratulations to the Journal of Africana Religions on @ahmadgreene.com's appointment as Managing Editor. The journal and field are fortunate to have such a stellar scholar involved in this work.
Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes (@ahmadgreene.com), Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, is the new Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions, a leading publication on African and African Diasporic religious traditions.

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Ahmad Greene-Hayes Named New Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions | Harvard Divinity School
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, has been named managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS, FRIEND! @ahmadgreene.com 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes (@ahmadgreene.com), Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, is the new Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions, a leading publication on African and African Diasporic religious traditions.

Read more: bit.ly/4lZG7qq
Ahmad Greene-Hayes Named New Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions | Harvard Divinity School
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, has been named managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Congratulations to @ahmadgreene.com and the Journal of Africana Religions on this great match. If you're a scholar of Africana Religions, please submit your work: africanareligions.org/announcements/.
Ahmad Greene-Hayes Named New Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions | Harvard Divinity School
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, has been named managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A reminder.
June 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes (@ahmadgreene.com), Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, is the new Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions, a leading publication on African and African Diasporic religious traditions.

Read more: bit.ly/4lZG7qq
Ahmad Greene-Hayes Named New Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions | Harvard Divinity School
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, has been named managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!
July 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I love—em-dashes.
July 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
July 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📍 DC
July 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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did you know how much religion shaped the Stonewall uprising?
Read Ahmad Greene-Hayes’ stellar article on Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera in the inaugural issue of *QTR: A Journal of Trans & Queer Studies in Religion*! @ahmadgreene.com @dukepress.bsky.social

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June 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Our summer reading book sale is still on today and tomorrow! Use code (or say to our bookseller irl) "SUMMERREADS" at checkout to get 20% off all books! Let us know in the comments what you're reading this summer 📚 🌞 #SummerReading #BookSale #RedEmmas
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
June 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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So great to read @mpgphd.bsky.social's conversation with @ahmadgreene.com about his new book, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which is a game-changer. #AfAmReligion
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I’ll be in DC next Tuesday to co-host @mirrormemoirs.bsky.social ‘s film screening with our DC-based board members @queenadesuyi.bsky.social @ahmadgreene.com @its-mbwende.bsky.social at @festivalcenter.bsky.social - I hope to see our DMV community members there!
Folks in or near DC: join us next Tuesday, May 20 at the Festival Center in Adams Morgan for a screening of our filmed theater project, “Transmutation: A Ceremony”

Doors at 5:00pm
Program 6:00-8:30pm
Refreshments served.

Tickets are free, donations encouraged.

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Transmutation: A Ceremony (Washington DC Film Screening)
"Transmutation: A Ceremony" (Washington DC Film Screening) Please join us Tuesday, May 20 evening to witness our pre-recorded theater project, "Transmutation: A Ceremony."
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May 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social research fellow @ahmadgreene.com on *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which will be published by the University of Chicago Press on May 6.

The book is shipping now.
Underworld Work
A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orl...
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May 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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sitting with @ahmadgreene.com's _Underworld Work_ this morning and just

what a treat

y'all need this

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Underworld Work
A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orl...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I join the happy recipients of @ahmadgreene.com’s #underworldwork!
April 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In the authoritarian year of 2025, I desperately want adults to be okay with me or anyone else not enjoying something that they enjoy.

Amen.
April 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Reading @ahmadgreene.com & Laura Helton this week in our Sacred Geographies course! We’ll focus on archives and collecting as forms of making/claiming/narrating/critiquing/embodying “the sacred.” Next week we visit Chi History Museum to engage archives & collections (& exhibits!) in person.
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Everyone acted they asses off.
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM