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About Joseph Stuart
I am a scholar of African American history, particularly of the relationship between race, freedom rights, and religion in the twentieth century Black Freedom Movement. My scholarship and pedagogy are built around establishing similarities, differences, and contingencies that reveal how groups fought for liberation in myriad ways. I assume that there is no single movement or approach to Black freedom that can adequately unpack the aims and desires of all Black communities—and that we do historical actors a disservice by flattening their decisions into simplistic categories. The same can and must be recognized when broadly describing the historical construction of race, gender, or politics.NBN Episodes hosted by Joseph:
March 24, 2024
Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
In this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. "Buf…
August 22, 2023
Convicting the Mormons
On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Mea…
July 28, 2023
Like a Fiery Meteor
Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding…
June 16, 2023
Sowing the Sacred
Lloyd Daniel Barba's book Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford UP, 2022) traces the development of Pentecostalism …
May 28, 2023
The Women’s Mosque of America
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the W…
December 23, 2022
Muslims of the Heartland
The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvary…
October 7, 2022
The Secular Paradox
For much of America’s rapidly growing secular population, religion is an inescapable source of skepticism and discomfort. It shows up in politics and …
August 22, 2022
To Know the Soul of a People
To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of religion and race in the agricultural …
November 15, 2021
The Souls of Womenfolk
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghome…
October 5, 2021
PTL
In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the "PTL Club," from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. with half a dozen friend…