Judith Weisenfeld

Judith Weisenfeld
Alma mater Barnard College
Princeton University
Occupation Scholar, professor
Employer Princeton University
Notable work African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945.
Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Title Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion
Website judithweisenfeld.com

Judith Weisenfeld is a scholar of African-American religion. She is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University.[1]

Education and research

Weisenfeld attended Barnard College,[2] where she graduated cum laude with a degree in religion in 1986.[3] She then attended Princeton for her M.A. and Ph.D. (1992), with her dissertation focusing on the black women’s branch of the YWCA in New York in the first half of the 20th century.[4] This became the basis for her first book, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945.[5][6] While in graduate school in Princeton, Weisenfeld also became interested in film,[4] which became a focus of her second book project: Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949.[7][8][9][10][11]

In 2017, Weisenfeld published her third book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration.[12] The book develops a "comprehensive study of the formation of early 20th-century black religious movements",[13] incorporating into her analysis religious practices outside the Christian tradition that has traditionally been the focus of such scholarship.[14]

Teaching

Weisenfeld taught at Barnard from 1991 until 2000,[4] then Vassar College, where she earned tenure and chaired the Religion Department and led the Pan-African Studies Program.[15] She joined Princeton's faculty in 2007.[4] In addition to her appointment as in the Department of Religion as Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor, Weisenfeld is also affiliated with the Department of African American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Program in American Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion.[1]

Bibliography

  • ed. with Richard Newman. This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Autobiography (Routledge, 1996)[16]
  • African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard University Press, 1997)
  • Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (University of California Press, 2007)
  • New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (NYU Press, 2017)

References

  1. 1 2 "Judith Weisenfeld". Department of Religion. Princeton University. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Booker, Vaughn A. (7 February 2017). "Religious Movements of the Great Migration: An Interview with Judith Weisenfeld". Religion & Politics. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Rabinowitz, Mikaela (29 October 1998). "Barnard Professor Lectures History of Harlem YWCA". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Patel, Ushma (November 5, 2007). "Weisenfeld examines religious motivation in activist, artistic fields". Princeton University. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Moore, Cecilia A. (March 1999). "African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905–1945. By Weisenfeld Judith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 231 pp. $35.00 cloth". Church History. 68 (1): 220–221. doi:10.2307/3170176. ISSN 1755-2613. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  6. ↑ Cheryl, Greenberg, (1 April 1999). "Judith Weisenfeld. <italic>African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905–1945</italic>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997. Pp. viii, 231. $35.00". The American Historical Review. 104 (2). doi:10.1086/ahr/104.2.586. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Butters, Gerald R. (17 March 2008). "Hollywood Be Thy Name and the New Wave of African American Film Scholarship". Reviews in American History. 36 (1): 89–94. doi:10.1353/rah.2008.0018. ISSN 1080-6628. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Watts, J. (1 March 2008). "Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. By Judith Weisenfeld. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 341 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-22774-3.)". Journal of American History. 94 (4): 1298–1298. doi:10.2307/25095414. ISSN 0021-8723. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  9. ↑ Johnson, Sylvester A. (1 December 2008). "Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949". The American Historical Review. 113 (5): 1577–1578. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1577. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  10. ↑ Sherrard, Brooke (1 September 2009). "Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 – By Judith Weisenfeld". Religious Studies Review. 35 (3): 203–203. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01371_21.x. ISSN 1748-0922. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  11. ↑ Wright, Benjamin G. (1 July 2008). "Judith Weisenfeld, Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949". The Journal of African American History. 93 (3): 454–456. doi:10.1086/JAAHv93n3p454. ISSN 1548-1867. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  12. ↑ Angell, Stephen W. (2018-02-01). "Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration". The American Historical Review. 123 (1): 247–248. doi:10.1093/ahr/123.1.247. ISSN 0002-8762.
  13. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld. New York Univ., $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4798-8880-1". Publishers Weekly. December 12, 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  14. ↑ Moore, Julia Robinson (2017-09-01). "New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration. By Judith Weisenfeld". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 85 (3): 853–856. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfx034. ISSN 0002-7189.
  15. ↑ Raftery, Isolde (March 27, 2013). "Faculty, Administration Examine Barnard Tenure - Columbia Daily Spectator". Columbia Spectator. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  16. ↑ Taves, Ann (September 1997). "This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Autobiography. Edited by Weisenfeld Judith and Newman Richard. New York: Routledge, 1996. 326 pp". Church History. 66 (3): 671–672. doi:10.2307/3169555. ISSN 1755-2613.
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