Michael Brandon McCormack

Michael Brandon McCormack, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt), is Director, Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research; Chair and Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies, and Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities (Program in Religious Studies) at the University of Louisville. His research interests include the intersection of religion, popular culture, and political activism; religion and black youth culture (i.e., hip-hop); Black and womanist theologies of liberation; African diasporic religions; and the politics, porticos, and performance of the Black preaching tradition in America.