Stephen Prothero

Apr 2, 2024 | rap.wustl.edu | Stephen Prothero |Debra Kennard

The faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce its new cohort of postdoctoral fellows. The fellowships will begin with the 2024-2025 academic year and are renewable for the following year. Jesse Lee is completing his dissertation in the department of religion at Florida State University. He studies the relationships between religion, race, law, language, and Asian American identities.

Apr 5, 2023 | rap.wustl.edu | Stephen Prothero |Debra Kennard

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce it has awarded three postdoctoral fellowships to exceptional early career scholars. The fellowships will begin with the 2023-2024 academic year and are renewable for the following year. Michael Baysa is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of religion at Princeton University and has taught at New York University.

Feb 28, 2023 | religionandpolitics.org | Stephen Prothero

The story of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, is widely told, so much so that Rosa Parks, who inspired it, and Martin Luther King Jr., who led it, are now two of the best-known figures in U.S. history. Less known is how the events of that protest turned King into a bestselling author. On January 23, 1957, more than a year after the boycott had begun, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an end to segregation on Montgomery’s buses.