Join us for the 2027 presentation of the Dr. John H. Morrow and Dr. Diane B. Morrow Lectureship Series: Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones (Emory University) will present a lecture on her book and research. Details to be announced

Free and open to the public.

Dr. (Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones joined the Candler faculty in May of 2025 as assistant professor of theology and Africana studies. Adkins-Jones came to Candler from Boston College, where she served as assistant professor of theology and African and African diaspora studies. A constructive theologian and scholar of Black religion, she specializes in Mariology, Black feminist and womanist thought, and theological anthropology.

Her first monograph, Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology (Oxford University Press, June 2025), offers a theological account of the global sex trade, centering the Black Madonna to examine how Christian theologies of purity and rape intersect with Black flesh. She is also the recipient of a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers to support her monograph project See No Evil: Technology, Violence, and the Future of Black Being, which explores how visual technologies impact public perception of violence and Black death, developing a theological framework for Black protest.

Adkins-Jones is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Studies Association, the National Women’s Studies Associations, and the Society of Christian Ethics.