Wallace D. Best is Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 (Princeton Univeristy Press, 2005) and Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem (NYU Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion.
