Corey D. B. Walker

Contact

• Office:   B207 Tribble Hall
• Phone:  (336) 758-4728
• Email:    walkerco@wfu.edu

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.