AnneMarie Mingo
Associate Professor of Ethics, Culture, and Moral Leadership and Director of the Metro-Urban Institute
Year Started at PTS: 2022
CONTACT INFO
412-924-1401
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Emory University / Ethics and Society
- M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary / Social Ethics
- M.B.A., Rollins College / Business Administration
- B.A., Florida A&M University / Business Administration
Academic Bio
The Rev. Dr. AnneMarie Mingo is associate professor of ethics, culture, and moral leadership, and director of the Metro-Urban Institute, positions she has held since 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, where she serves on the steering committee for Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society. She is also a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, and serves on the Board of Directors.
Dr. Mingo’s first book—Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement—was published with the University of Illinois Press in 2024. Her academic articles appear in many publications, including Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Journal of Religious Ethics, and Black Theology: An International Journal. She is also a book series editor for T&T Clark Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography, and Theologies.
Dr. Mingo received her M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary, where in 2006 she received the Jean Anne Swope and James L. Mechem Prize in Christian Ethics. She received her Ph.D. in religion: ethics and society from Emory University, and is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Selected Publications
Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
“Black and Blue: Black Women, ‘Law and Order,’ and the Church’s Silence on Police Violence,” in Religions 12.10 (2021).
“Speaking to Stop the Silence: A Womanist Ethical Confrontation of Injustice,” in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 37.1 (2021).
“Transgressive Leadership and Theo-ethical Texts of Black Protest Music,” in Black Theology: An International Journal 17.2 (2019).
“Just Laws, Unjust Laws, and Theo-Moral Responsibility in Traditional and Contemporary Civil Rights Activism,” in Journal of Religious Ethics 46.4 (2018).
“Making Lemonade with Substitute Sugar: Towards an Ethics of Receptivity,” in Practical Matters Journal Issue 11 (2018).
CHURCH ASSOCIATION
Ordination: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Itinerant Elder
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
Areas of Specialty
- African American Religious Experiences - Historic and Contemporary
- Women and Social Protest Movements
- Civil and Human Rights Struggles
- Religion, Race, and Resistance
- Religious Social Ethics
- Popular Media and Constructions of Race and Gender
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Professional Societies
- American Academy of Religion—member, Steering Committee
- Society for the Study of Black Religion
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- Association of Black Women Historians
- The Society of Christian Ethics
- National Women’s Studies Association
- African American Intellectual History Society
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/DISTINCTIONS
- 2024: Theologian-in-Residence; Children’s Defense Fund Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry
- 2024: Ministry in the City HUB – Strengthening Pastoral Formation Grantee
- 2020-2022: Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Research Fellow, University of Memphis
- 2020: Excellence in Mentoring Award, Forum for Theological Exploration
- 2017: Most Valuable Professor, Intercollegiate Athletics, Pennsylvania State University
- 2017: Outstanding Faculty Adviser Award, College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University
- 2016: Barash Award for Human Service, Pennsylvania State University
- 2016: Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars, Morehouse College
- 2015-2016: Faculty Member of the Year, NCNW Penn State Chapter
- 2013-2014: Africana Research Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University
- 2006-2011: Graduate Diversity Fellowship, Emory University
- 2010-2011: Dissertation Fellow, The Fund for Theological Education
- 2006: Jean Anne Swope and James L. Mechem Prize in Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary