Valerie C. Cooper, Th.D.. (Harvard) African American Religious History Office: 105 Halsey Annex 434-9246-648 valerie_cooper@virginia.edu UVa instructor ID # b663 African American Religious History, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Religion and Society, Religion and Popular Culture, African American Women's Religious Narratives, African American Biblical Hermeneutics and Appropriation, New Testament and Christian Origins Education: B.S., Howard University M.Div., Howard University School of Divinity Th.D., Harvard University Divinity School Courses: Fall 2006 RELG 280 African American Religious History RELG 225 Religion and Race in Film Spring 2006: RELC 150: Introduction to Christian Traditions RELC 323: Pentecostalism Fall 2005: RELG 280: African American Religious History RELG 440: Womanist Theology   Publications, Awards, and Activities Articles: Dissertation, "Word, Like Fire: The Biblical Hermeneutics of Maria Stewart" “Making the Invisible Visible Again,” presented at the Women in Christianity Conference, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March 19, 2005. “Someplace to Cry: Jephthah’s Daughter and the Double Dilemma of Black Women in America,” _Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible_. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. “Malcolm X,” “Benjamin Mays,” and “Elijah Muhammad” in _Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart_, Jan Rohls, ed. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002. “Laying the Foundations for Azusa: Black Women, Theology, and Public Ministry in the Nineteenth Century,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, February 26, 1999. “The Importance of Passing Things On,” _The Journal of Religious Thought_ 50, nos. 1 and 2 (fall-spring 1993-94): 116-120.