Adam Bond: Silhouette Interview

05/01/25 • 20 min

The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University.

Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University.

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Igniting Imagination: Adam Bond

Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University.

Teaching to unlock new abilities to see. Imagining new futures, building new worlds, seeing new possibilities can be incorporated into our classrooms if teachers can unshackle their own creativity. Bond reflects on a recent Wabash cohort experience which challenged participants to move past nostalgia and toward the challenge of shaping of new futures.

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Eric Lewis Williams, Ph.D. is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.

Williams quotes Zora Neale Hurston, "I was born with God in my house." Hear a scholar's story of having been raised in a Pentecostal household, mentored into the scholarship of religion with no contradiction, and working as a professor, museum curator, and higher education administrator. Williams' journey is one of curiosity, boldness, and creativity.