The pair says their student experiences on the Hill inspired them to spend the past two and a half decades working on this project. \u201cOur two volumes engaging colonial history, race, and religion are a reflection of our foundational work at Colgate studying religion, literature, women\u2019s studies, and Africana studies,\u201d Hucks says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More Than Two Decades in the Making <\/strong> Their unique blend of education and\nexperiences allowed them to write the books\nthrough a specific lens: \u201cAs scholars in the\nhumanities \u2014 a trained historian of religion\nand a theologian \u2014 we treat interiority\nperhaps as much as we do the exterior worlds\nof the figures and personalities the reader will\nmeet throughout each volume,\u201d she adds.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks, Professor <\/strong> Studying Abroad <\/strong> About the Authors <\/strong> Hucks is the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dianne Stewart \u201990 and Tracey Hucks \u201987, MA\u201990 collaborated to produce two volumes of a book on Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa religions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":11243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[1297,36,684,376,1300,74,1298,1299,210,1197,1296,1295],"coauthors":[168],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni-spotlights","category-alumni-updates","tag-africana-studies","tag-alst","tag-author","tag-english","tag-james-a-storing-professor-of-religion-and-african-and-latin-american-studies","tag-literature","tag-nigeria-study-group","tag-provost-and-dean-of-the-faculty","tag-religion","tag-study-abroad","tag-trinidad","tag-yoruba-orisa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-2Si","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/Hucks_Stewart_Image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11670,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/11670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/Book_Template_Obeah-Hucks-1024x768.jpg\")
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A lot has changed for Hucks and Stewart during the process of writing their books: They\u2019ve earned degrees, changed jobs, written books and numerous journal articles, and overall expanded their knowledge base around their research topic. \u201cWhile the project unfolded, we developed new perspectives as a result of our wider scholarly activities,\u201d Hucks says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cColgate is where I met my first professor of African and African diaspora religious studies, Dr. Josiah Young,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cDr. Young exposed me, Tracey, and numerous Colgate students to the intersecting intellectual lineages of Black religious thought, Black arts, and Black letters. In so doing, Dr. Young taught us that the entire African diaspora and the African continent were tethered \u2014 spiritually, culturally, politically, and racially \u2014 to what we were studying about Black religious and theological traditions in the United States.\u201d Hucks adds, \u201cDr. Manning Marable, founder of Colgate\u2019s ALST program, was as impactful as Dr. Young.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart was among Colgate\u2019s inaugural cohort of the Nigeria Study Group, while Hucks studied abroad in Kenya and Tanzania. \u201cCultivating knowledge of African studies through direct learning experiences on the continent (thanks to professors such as Carol Ann Lorenz and R. V. Smith, who organized these opportunities) contributed significantly to our scholarly path toward Africana Religious Studies,\u201d Stewart says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, where she specializes in African heritage religious cultures in the Caribbean and the Americas. She majored in English and African American studies at Colgate, and she earned her MDiv from Harvard and her PhD in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana religious studies at Harvard Divinity School. Previously, she served as provost and dean of the faculty at Colgate, where she also held the post of James A. Storing Professor of religion and Africana and Latin American studies. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Africana and Latin American studies and religion, and her master of arts in religion. She also received a second master\u2019s degree and a PhD from Harvard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"