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Alton B. Pollard III, Ph.D.
Dean

Office: 149 Mays Hall
Mailing Address:
Howard University School of Divinity

1400 Shepherd Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20017

Phone: 202/806-0500
Fax: 202/635-4904
E-mail: apollard@howard.edu

 

Education

B.A. with honors in religion & philosophy and business management - Fisk University

M.Div. - Harvard University Divinity School

Ph.D. - Department of Religion, Duke University-

Areas of Expertise

African American Religion and Culture
Sociology of the Black Church
Southern African Studies
Pan-Africanist Religious Thought
American Religious Cultures
Sociology of Religion

Professional Vocation

Ordained Clergy

Denominational Affiliation

Baptist

 

 


Publications
 

Author - “Mysticism and Social Change”; new introduction to W.E.B. DuBois’, “The Negro Church”; Wade in the Water: A Meditation on Race, Class, and Katrina in “The Sky is Crying: Race, Class, and Natural Disaster,” Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, ed. (Abingdon, 2006); and "Letter to Martin" in Frequently Asked Questions about Sexuality, the Bible and the Church, Ted Smith, ed. (The Covenant Network of Presbyterians, 2006).
Editor - Black Church Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (forthcoming) and How Long This Road: Race, Religion and the Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln with L. Henry Whelchel
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onsulting editor - multi-volume Howard Thurman Papers Project, The Sound of the Genuine

 


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