The Lived Theology and Power Workgroup
Houston Roberson
Assistant Professor of U.S. History (University of the South). A.B. History (Mars Hill College); M.A. (Wake Forest University); Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
Houston Roberson's scholarly interests focus on the intersection between religion, race and culture. Professor Roberson is in the process of revising his dissertation: "Fighting the Good Fight: A History of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865-1977." Two current projects come from that work. First, he has written a chapter titled "Accommodating Activism: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and Robert Chapman JudkinsóWorkers that Need Not Be Ashamed--1880-1920" for the book, Civil Rights in the Gulf South, to be published by the University of Florida Press. In addition, he is contributing a chapter titled "Memory, Vision, and Reality: Black Southern Churches at the turn of the new Millennium" to appear in the book, Religion in the South on the Eve of the Millennium: Looking Backward, Forward and All Around, to be published by the University of Tennessee Press.
Additionally Roberson is co-editing a collection of essays on college teachers' experiences teaching their students about the Civil Rights Movement in a book, Teaching the Civil Rights Movement: Strategies, Perspectives and Issues (Routledge Press).
In 1994-95 Roberson was a fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama where he worked on their project and magazine publication "Teaching Tolerance." He also wrote the teacher's guide for a short book and video, The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America.