Corey D. B. Walker
Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities
Contact
- Office: B207 Tribble Hall
- Phone: (336) 758-4728
- Email:
Degrees
- Ph.D. The College of William and Mary
- MA, ad eundem Brown University
- M.T.S. Harvard University
- M.Div. Virginia Union University
- BS Norfolk State University
Area(s) of Interest
- Africana Philosophy
- Critical Theory
- Ethics
- Religion and American Public Life
- Social and Political Philosophy
Courses taught at WFU
- AAS 100 – Introduction to African American Studies
- ENG 381 – The Black Radical Tradition
- ENG 302 – The Sovereignty of the Imagination
- FYS 100 – The Humanities and Other Humans
Selected Publications
- Editor, “African American Religion,” Bloomsbury Religion in North America (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).
- With Sabrina E. Dent, ed., African Americans and Religious Freedom: New Perspectives for Congregations and Communities (Washington, DC: Freedom Forum, 2021).
- With Melody C. Barnes and Thad Williamson, eds., Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work (Gloucestershire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).
- Editor, “To Stand With and For Humanity”: Essays from the Wake Forest University Slavery, Race and Memory Project (Wake Forest University, 2020).
- Associate Editor, SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity, 2 Volumes (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010).
- Editor, “Theology and Democratic Futures,” special issue of Political Theology 10.2 (April 2009).
- A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
- Articles appearing in Amerikastudien/American Studies, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Black Theology, boundary 2, Cahiers Charles V, Callaloo, C.L.R. James Review, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Political Theology and South Atlantic Quarterly.