Monique Nicole Moultrie, Ph.D.

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1 Monique Nicole Moultrie, Ph.D. Education Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Ph.D. May 2010 Graduate Department of Religion Ethics and Society Dissertation: Between the Horny and Holy: Womanist Sexual Ethics and the Cultural Productions of No More Sheets Dissertation Readers: Victor Anderson, Linda Thomas, Fernando Segovia, Melissa Snarr, Lewis Baldwin Exams: Black Theology, Womanist Theology and Ethics, Pragmatism, Process Philosophy. Passed Qualifying Exams with highest distinction of Honors (December 2006) Graduate Certificate in Women s and Gender Studies Carpenter Program Certificate in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Master of Theological Studies June 02 Concentration in Women s Studies and sexual ethics of Christianity and Islam Duke University, Durham, NC Bachelor of Arts December 1999 Majored in Religion and Sociology with a minor in African-American Studies Teaching and Research Experience Postdoctoral Fellow, Ford Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 08/14-07/15 Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 8/12-Present Designed syllabi and taught courses entitled Religion, Race, and Nation, Theories and Methods in Religious Studies, African American Religion, and Religion and American Public Life, Pro-Seminar in Advanced Theory and Method, Religion and Sexuality in Pop Culture, Introduction to World Religions, and Comparative Religious Traditions, Gender, and Sexuality Visiting Minority Fellow, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 8/10-7/12 Designed syllabi and taught courses entitled The African American Experience, Religion in the South, and Passionate and Pious: Interrogating Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Religious Media, Introduction to Religious Studies; Religion in Contemporary America; Islam in the African Diaspora Adjunct Professor, American Baptist College, Nashville, TN 6/08-5/12 Designed syllabus and taught courses entitled Black Church and Social Reform, Theologies of Liberation, and Ethics in Pastoral Therapy Master Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 8/08-5/09 Led Teaching of Religion practicums and coordinated workshops for teaching assistants Provided support services for teaching assistants in the Graduate Department of Religion 1

2 Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN 8/07-12/07 Graded student assignments in advanced level course on Religion and Culture Led classroom discussion Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 8/06-12/06; 8/07-12/07 Graded students exams and assignments in advanced level course on Nonviolent Social Movements Assisted graduate students in formation of final projects and final papers Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 1/06-5/06; 1/05-5/05 Evaluated students exams and assignments in introductory level course on African-American Religious History Facilitated student discussions on course materials Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 8/05-12/05 Graded students exams and assignments in introductory level course on Islam Assisted undergraduates in formation of final papers, including guiding research Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 8/05-12/05 Graded students exams and assignments in introductory level course on Southern Religion and Culture Led student discussions on course materials Feminist Sexual Ethics Project Research Analyst, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 4/02-10/06 Collected and analyzed research on contemporary stereotypes of black women s sexuality Researched and created reports on the consequences of slavery on black women s sexuality Gathered data on slavery in early antiquity for comparison with contemporary American slavery Instructor for Harvard University Reading and Research, Cambridge, MA 1/02-5/02 Supervised undergraduate reading and research topics involving sexuality, HIV/AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues W.E. B. Du Bois Institute Research Assistant, Cambridge, MA 9/01-1/02 Systematized research for project on sexuality Executed literature retrieval and utilized university resources for research project Research Interests: African American Religious Studies, Womanist Theology and Ethics, Evangelical Protestantism, Women and Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies; Muslima Theology, Process Philosophy Disability Studies Professional Experience National Institutes of Health Consultant, Bethesda, MD 1/13-Present Developed content for NIH Safe Zone Training and Facilitator Manuals Facilitated Safe Zone Trainings at NIH Created content focused on transgender /intersex community needs for Transgender NIH Training 2

3 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Religious Archives Network Consultant, Berkeley, CA 4/10- Present Identified and interviewed black LGBT persons for oral history project Produced articles for LGBT-RAN website Performed archival work with an emphasis on black LGBT religious communities Ford Foundation Sexuality and Religion Consultant, New York, NY 5/06-8/07 Analyzed Ford Foundation grant making on sexuality and religion Interviewed Program Officers and grantees to identify the connections of sexuality and religion Produced final report to inform future Foundation grant making Women s Studies in Religion Program Assistant to the Director, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 8/02-8/03 Managed Women s Studies in Religion Program office Faculty assistant for five Visiting Faculty Assistant Administrator of Women s Studies in Religion Program fellowships Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Office Assistant, Cambridge, MA 9/00-8/02 Provided clerical support to Bunting Fellowship Program Office Screened and processed applications for Bunting Fellowship Program Harvard AIDS Institute KITSO Program Intern, Cambridge, MA 9/01-1/02 Conducted research related to the development of the KITSO curriculum and electronic library Assisted in the coordination of on-site trainings Organized electronic copies of KITSO resource documents Provided assistance to Harvard AIDS Institute Educational Programming Team Publications A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way form A to Z, 2 nd Edition. Co-editing with Mary Hunt and Kecia Ali. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming November Interrogating the Passionate and Pious: Televangelism and Black Women s Sexuality, in The Sexual Politics of Black Churches, edited by Josef Sorett, The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life Series, Columbia University Press, forthcoming December Review of Womanism Against Socially-Constructed Matriarchal Images: A Theoretical Model Toward A Therapeutic Goal by MarKeva Gwendolyn Hill. Black Theology: An International Journal 12.1 (April 2014): After the Thrill is Gone: Married to the Holy Spirit but Still Sleeping Alone, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 33 (2011): Review Essay of Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Mary Stanton, and Let My People Go! The Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Robert Walker. Journal of African American History, 94 (2009): In the World to Come, God Will Sign: Challenges to Feminist Theologies of Embodiment and Wholeness and a Model of Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities, Journal of Religion, Disability, and 3

4 Health Vol. 11 (April 2007): Review of Soul Murder and Slavery by Nell Irvin Painter. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Review of Without Pilot or Compass: Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South by Drew Gilpin Faust. In Religion and the American Civil War. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Review of Marital and Sexual Norms Among Slave Women by Herbert G. Gutman. In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Review of Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex by Darlene Clark Hine. In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Review of Religion, Gender, and Identity: Black Methodist Women in a Slave Society, by Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. In Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past. Online Review for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Presentations Hidden Histories: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism. Paper presented at Whose Beloved Community? Black Civil and LGBT Rights Conference, Atlanta, GA, March Teaching Black After Being Taught White. Paper presented at the Society of Christian Ethics, Seattle, WA, January Personal Cost and the Personal Joy: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism. Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Women and Religion), Baltimore, MA, November That Their Living Will Not Be in Vain: Faith as a Site of Black Lesbian Activism, Invited Lecture for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, February Human Side of the Job Search, Panel Discussion, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, November Draw the Circle Wide: Honest Conversations on and with LGBTQ Folk in Religious Communities. Panel Discussion and Workshop Leader for Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, TN, April Black Women Navigating the Ivory Tower, Panel Discussion, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, March Black Women and Sexuality. Invited presentation given at Deeper Shades of Purple Conference and Black Church Summit, New York City, NY, March Interrogating Holy Bodies: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Religious Media. Paper presented at the Society of Christian Ethics, Washington, DC, January

5 Don t Ask Until I Tell: Leadership Through Sexual Confession. Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Ethics), San Francisco, CA, November Our Faith, Our Families, Our Communities: Building a Brighter Future for our Youth. Panel Discussion for Human Rights Campaign, Nashville, TN, October The Black Church and Women s Sexual Agency, Invited presentation given at Genderations Luncheon at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, March Between the Horny and Holy: Womanist Sexual Ethics, Invited Lecture for the African American Studies Lecture Series at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, November Mediating Masculinities: What Does it Mean to be a Black Man in the 21 st Century? Panel Discussion, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, November Passionate and the Pious: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Black Women s Sexual Decision- Making, Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and Religion and Sexuality Consultation), Atlanta, GA, October Interrogating the Passionate and Pious, Arcus Foundation Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches, New York, NY, June Black Victorias and the Politics of Respectability. Panel Discussion, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, April Televangelism and Black Women s Sexuality: A Womanist and Cultural Analysis of Religious Media. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA, March Black Victorias and the Politics of Respectability: Black Women s Activism in the Late Victorian Era. Paper presented at New Perspectives on African American History and Culture, Chapel Hill, NC, February Racism/Heterosexism: Intersecting Experience. Panel Discussion, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, October God between the Sheets: The Black Church and Black Women s Sexuality. Paper presented at Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latino/a Sexualities, Chicago, IL, April Islam and Gender. Panel discussion, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, March Subversive/subjective Experiences: African American Women and Islam. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA, March Black Sexuality in Religious Media. Facilitator for Sexuality and Black Churches Consultation, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, February Its Crowded Under Here: Between the Sheets, the Black Church and Women s Sexuality. Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Meeting, (Religion and Sexuality Consultation), San Diego, CA, November Womanist Witness: Moving our Tradition Forward. Paper presented at the Womanist Consultation, 5

6 American Academy of Religion Meeting, San Diego, CA, November Between Whose Sheets? The Black Church and Black Women s Sexuality. Paper presented at Souls a Fire Conference for the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies in Religion and Ministry, Philadelphia, PA, April Hagar s Legacy: Living to See God in the Faces of Latin American Women. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Nashville, TN, March From Womanist Thought to Womanist Action: The Black Church and Black Women s Sexuality. Paper presented at The Society of Christian Ethics, Dallas, TX, January Womanist Scholarship and the Next Generation. Paper presented at the Womanist Consultation, American Academy of Religion Meeting, Washington, D.C., November Between the Sheets: The Black Church and Black Women s Sexuality. Paper presented at Sisters of African Descent: Connecting Spirituality, Religion, and Vocation, Atlanta, GA, September In the World to Come God will Sign: Challenges to Feminist Theologies of Embodiment and Wholeness and a Model of Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA, March Introduction to Islam, Lecture given at Congregation Ohabai Sholom, Nashville, TN, January 2007 and March Representing Women of Color in the Struggle for Reproductive Justice. Paper presented at Southeastern Women s Studies Association, Greenville, NC, April Connecting Religion, Sexuality, and Culture: The Black Church and Sexual Ethics. Ford Foundation Seminar, New York, NY, March Subjective Experiences: Black Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Lecture given at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November Redemptive Resistance: The Black Church s Response to HIV/AIDS. Paper presented at SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights National Conference, Atlanta, GA, November Academics and Activism: The Intersection of Feminist Sexual Ethics and Reproductive Rights. Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom Leadership Training, Washington, DC, August Creating Sexual Ethics Based on Mutuality, Consent, and Pleasure. Ford Foundation Seminar, New York, NY, June Constructing Sexuality. Race, Culture, and Diversity Symposium on Sexuality, Panel discussion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May Slavery, Religion, and Women. Panel Discussion at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, March

7 Academic Honors and Awards Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities, (Declined) Cross Currents Coolidge Scholars Summer Colloquium, July 2014 Oral History Institute Participant, Kenyon College, June 2013 Major Impact Alumni, Duke University, April 2012 Safe Zone Ally, Western Kentucky University, November 2011 Fund for Theological Education Fellow/Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop Participant, March 25-27, Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Fellowship, Emory University Religion and Sexuality Research Seminar Participant, June 2009 Fund for Theological Education Dissertation Fellow, Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2008 CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, College of St. Rose, 2008 (Declined) Vanderbilt University Bettye R. Ford Graduate Student Service Award, 2008 Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics Dissertation Writers Group, 2008 Provost s Graduate Fellowship, Roothbert Fund Fellowship, Roothbert Fund Student Board Member, Susan Ford Wiltshire Women and Gender Studies Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2006 Fund for Theological Education Expanding Horizons Doctoral Fellow, Duke University Leadership in Aging Gabel Intern, 1999 Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society 1999 University and Community Service Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Tenure Track Search Committee, 08/13-03/14 Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Executive Committee, 08/12-Present Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Scribe, 08/12-08/14 Georgia State University, Religious Studies Department Program Committee, 08/12-05/13 American Academy of Religion Status of Women in the Profession Committee Member, 1/12- Present Develop programs to enhance the status of women in the profession Host mentoring luncheon and preside in special topics forums at AAR American Academy of Religion and Sexuality Group Co-Chair, 11/09-Present Assist with selecting call and proposals for Religion and Sexuality Consultation Preside during sessions Produced report that secured group an additional annual meeting session Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Black Cultures Co-Chair and Committee Member, 5/10-4/13 Assist with selecting call and proposals Preside during sessions 7

8 Vanderbilt University Search Committee Member for GLBT Director, 4/08-6/08 Represented graduate student body on university search committee Aided committee members in presenting candidates for position before university body Graduate Student Council Representative, 8/07-5/10 Attend Graduate Student Council meetings and participate in committees Liaison between Graduate Department of Religion students and Graduate School Harvard Divinity School Alumni of African Descent Recruitment/Retention Chairperson, Cambridge, MA 8/06-6/08 Coordinated Harvard alumni to provide support and resources to matriculating students Assisted with recruitment endeavors Organized panel for Diversity and Explorations Program at Harvard Divinity School American Academy of Religion Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Committee Member, 9/05-9/11 Assist with selecting call and proposals for Womanist sessions Aid planning for the Womanist Consultation Vanderbilt Divinity School Professorial Search Committee Student Representative, Nashville, TN 1/07-3/07; 1/04 5/04 Represented student body on professorial search committee Aided committee members in presenting candidates for position before university body Duke University Alumni Admissions Recruiter, Nashville, TN 9/03-Present Conduct interviews of prospective college freshman Assist with college fairs and other recruitment endeavors Black Church Initiative Sexuality Education Facilitator, Boston, MA 9/02-Present Guide discussion and activities for Keeping It Real and Breaking the Silence curriculums Train other facilitators to implement the Christian sexuality education curriculum for Black Churches Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Black Church Initiative Committee Member, Boston, MA 9/01-Present Act as a liaison between the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the Black Church population Plan discussions for Black churches on the issue of sexuality, AIDS, and teenagers Harvard Divinity School Professorial Search Committee Student Representative, Cambridge, MA 9/01-6/02 Represented student body on professorial search committee Aided committee members in presenting candidates for position before university body 8

9 Professional Memberships American Academy of Religion Society of Christian Ethics Society for the Study of Black Religion Cultural Studies Association Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Southeastern Women s Studies Association National Women s Studies Association 9