Dean Jonathan Strom has announced that Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones has joined the Candler faculty as assistant professor of theology and Africana studies. She will begin teaching in fall 2025.
Adkins-Jones comes 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 earned her master of divinity from Duke Divinity School and her PhD in religion from Duke University. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics, among other professional associations.