The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network is collaborating with Union Theological Seminary on this in-person gathering to present the 2022-23 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award to Wallace D. Best, Ph.D on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm ET. This is the first year that LGBTQ-RAN’s annual award for papers has been named in memory of Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. This event will also include memorial tributes to the courageous witness and scholarship of this ground-breaking lesbian-feminist-trans theologian.
Wallace D. Best, Ph.D
Wallce D. Best, Ph.D. is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Religion and African American Studies and the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. His paper, “Everybody Knew He Was ‘That Way;’ Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion & Sexuality During the Post World War II Period,” was selected by the review jury to receive this unique award for outstanding research and scholarship in LGBTQ religious history. Read more about Best’s research and the Mollenkott Award in this press release.