Lecture Series: Race, Ethnicity and the Work of Spiritual Care, Session 2
Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and the Fetzer Institute as they continue the lecture series Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Spiritual Care. In this second session, we will discuss the history of Black chaplaincy in the US, the results of an intensive interview project with chaplains of color, and the future of the field. We’ll be joined by:
Aja Antoine, Lab Research Associate and PhD Student at the University of California at Berkeley. Trained in qualitative social science, Aja has extensive experience with in depth-interviewing and project-based research. Aja graduated from Brandeis University ’17 with degrees in Sociology and African and Afro-American Studies and is currently a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wendy Cadge, Lab Director. Professor Cadge is an expert in contemporary American religion, especially related to religion in public institutions, religious diversity, religion and immigration, and religious and moral aspects in healthcare.
Among her publications is Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, which explores how doctors, nurses and hospitals address religion and spirituality. She founded the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab in October 2018.
Barbara Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought; Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Savage is an historian and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought in the Department of Africana Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.
She was a member of the University’s History Department from 1995-2013. She was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 2018-2019.
She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in twentieth century African American history; the history of American religious and social reform movements; the history of the relationship between media and politics; and black women’s political and intellectual history.