
Nikki Young
Associate Provost for Equity and Inclusive ExcellenceEducational Background
- B.A., UNC-Asheville
- M.Div and Th.M, Candler School of Theology at Emory University
- Ph.D. Christian Ethics, Emory University's Graduate Division of Religion
Teaching and Research Interests
- Ethical issues of race, gender, and sexuality
- How Black queer communities possess, embody, and enact moral excellence
Current Projects
Currently working on her two manuscripts — Home Free: A Transnational Ethics of Black Queer Liberation and In Tongues of Mortals and Angels: A De-Constructive Theology of God-Talk in Acts and Paul (in collaboration with Jake Myers and Eric Barreto).
Courses
- WMST 150 (Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies)
- WMST 222 (Queer Studies)
- WMST/RELI 233 (Global Feminism and Religion)
- WMST/RELI 219 (Contemporary Religion: Race, Gender, Sexuality)
- WMST/RELI 248 (Women and Religions of the African Diaspora)
- WMST/RELI 239 (Queering (Christian) Theology)
Selected Publications
BOOK
Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
ESSAYS
"Imagining Queer Life After Death" GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies (forthcoming, June 2017).
"Queer Studies and Religion: Methodologies of Freedom" Scholar and Feminist Online 14.2 (2017).
(with Shannon J. Miller) "Asé and Amen, Sister!: Black Feminist Scholars Engage in Interdisciplinary, Dialogical, Transformative Ethical Praxis" Journal of Religious Ethics 43.2 (2015): 288-315.
"'Uses of the Erotic' for Teaching Queer Studies" WSQ: Enchantment 40.3-4 (2012): 301-305.
"Queering the Human Situation" Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 28.1 (2012): 126-131.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Religion" in Jennifer C. Nash, ed. Gender: Love. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017.
(with Robyn Henderson-Espinoza) "Women of Color Liberative Ethics" in Miguel de la Torre, ed. Ethics: A Liberative Approach. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013.