Corey D. B. Walker
Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities Inaugural Director of the Program in African American Studies
Office: Divinity and Religious Studies Building 109
Phone: (336) 758-3957
Email: walkerco@wfu.edu
Corey D. B. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities at Wake Forest University. His research and teaching interests include Africana philosophy, critical theory, ethics, social and political philosophy, and religion and public life. His scholarship and public speaking attracts a broad audience and he provides informed commentary to a number of media outlets.
He is the author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America, co-editor with Melody C. Barnes and Thad Williamson, Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work, editor of the “Theology and Democratic Futures” special issue of the journal Political Theology, and associate editor of the award-winning SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. He has published over sixty articles, essays, book chapters and reviews appearing in a wide range of scholarly journals and co-directed and co-produced the documentary film fifeville with acclaimed artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson. He also served as book review editor and associate editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, generally considered the top academic journal in the field.
He has held faculty and academic leadership positions at Brown University, University of Virginia, Virginia Union University, and Winston-Salem State University and visiting faculty appointments at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and University of Richmond. He was also a non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Ph.D. The College of William and Mary
MA, ad eundem, Brown University
M.T.S. Harvard University
M.Div. Virginia Union University
BS Norfolk State University
With Melody C. Barnes and Thad Williamson, eds., Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work (Gloucestershire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).
Associate Editor, SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity, 2 Volumes (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010).
Editor, “Theology and Democratic Futures,” special issue of Political Theology 10.2 (April 2009).
A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
Articles appearing in Amerikastudien/American Studies, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Black Theology, boundary 2, Cahiers Charles V, Callaloo, C.L.R. James Review, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Political Theology and South Atlantic Quarterly.