Each year, IARPT’s journal, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, hosts a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. We are pleased to announce that William David Hart will be this year’s speaker. The title of his lecture is “Sense and Sensibility: IARPT’s Existential Orientations.”

William David Hart (PhD, Princeton, 1994) is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College. He received his PhD in Religion, Ethics, and Politics (philosophy of religion) from Princeton University where he studied with Cornel West and Jeffrey Stout. Under the supervision of his thesis advisor Linell Cady, he received an MA in Religious Studies from Arizona State University (1988). Hart received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona (1979) where he double majored in history and political science. Prior entering academic life full time, Hart was a professional firefighter in the Phoenix Fire Department, a steward of the local branch of the International Firefighters Union, and an organizer for the Central Arizona Labor Council. He is the author of The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse (Lexington 2020); Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion (Palgrave 2011); Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Palgrave 2008); and Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge 2000).  His research interests include black studies, social theory, philosophy of race, American philosophy, and the intersections of religion, ethics, and politics.

The 2022 annual meeting of the AAR will take place November 19-22 in Denver, Colorado. Professor Hart will give his lecture on Sunday evening. All are welcome.