Courses

Victor Anderson 
Oberlin Alumni Professor of Christian Ethics 
Professor of African American Studies
Professor of Religious Studies
victor.anderson@vanderbilt.edu

• Ethics in Theological Perspectives
• Advanced Theological Ethics, Catholic Moral Theology
• Theology and Ethics in America
• Black Religion and Culture Studies I: 
• Black Religion and Culture Studies II: Representation and Performance in Cultural Studies
• Slave Religion
• Methods in Ethics 
• Political Ethics: The Tradition of Political Liberalism and the Priority of Democracy

• Twentieth-Century North Atlantic Ethics: The Tradition of Theological Liberalism

Dennis C. Dickerson 
Professor of History
dennis.c.dickerson@vanderbilt.edu

• Religion and the Civil RIghts Movement
• 20^th century African American Religious History

Forrest Harris 
Assistant Professor of Black Church Studies
forrest.e.harris@vanderbilt.edu

• Theology and Ministry in the Black Church Tradition
• Black Preaching 
• Liberation and Spirituality
• Black Religious Leadership
• Race, Religion and Ethnicity in America

• Race, Sexuality, Class, and Inequality

Juan Floyd-Thomas 
Associate Professor in the Field of Black Church Studies
j.floyd-thomas@vanderbilt.edu

• Introduction to Black Church Studies
• Religions of the African Diaspora
• Critical Readings in Afro-American Religion
• Race, Religion, and Protest Music
• Moral Philosophy and Black Popular Culture
• Black Religion in Context: Harlem
• The Religious Thought of Howard Thurman

• Cultural Significations and Black Religion

Stacey Floyd-Thomas 
Associate Professor of Ethics and Society
s.floyd-thomas@vanderbilt.edu

• Womanist Literature as a Resource for Ethics
• Womanist Theology and Ethics in Praxis
• African American Social Ethics
• Moral Philosophy and Black Popular Culture

Herbert Marbury 
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
h.marbury@vanderbilt.edu

• African American Biblical Hermeneutics
• Hebrew Bible