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Anthea Butler is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on African American religion, race, politics, and media. She is on leave for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Education: Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University (2001). Professional affiliations include the American Academy of Religion, American Historical Association, and co-PI of The Crossroads Project at Princeton University. She is a sought-after media commentator, contributing to MSNBC and major publications like The New York Times and The Guardian.
Research interests include Religion and Politics, Racism, African American Religious History, Pentecostalism, and Religion in Media. Notable works include White Evangelical Racism (2022) and Women in the Church of God in Christ (2007). She contributed to the 1619 Project with a chapter on "Church".
Awarded the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award for Public Understanding of Religion, a Luce/ACLS Fellowship (2018), and served as a Presidential Fellow at Yale Divinity School (2019-2020).
Teaches courses such as Religion from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and God and Money. Engages in public scholarship through media commentary and documentary consulting (e.g., PBS series on The Black Church).
