Assistant Professor
Hardy specializes in American religious culture and contemporary Christian thought with a special emphasis on black religious culture and thought. After graduating from Princeton University (A.B. 1992) he completed his graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City (M.Div. 1995, M.Phil. 2000, Ph.D. 2001). Hardy is the author of James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. He is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled: We Grappled for the Mysteries: Black God-Talk in Modern America which will span the 1920s through the Civil Rights period and consider how black descriptions of the divine have evolved in the modern period.
