November 12 at 5 pm, Theron Room, Wright Library and streaming online
Lecture title: “Rendering to Caesar: Lessons from Wartime Sudan”
Lecturer: Dr. Christopher Tounsel
Christopher Tounsel is an historian of modern Sudan, with special focus on race and religion as political technologies. His first book, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Duke 2021), was named a finalist for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s Outstanding First Book Award and was a Finalist for the 2022 Christianity Today Book Award (History/Biography).
His most recent book, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell, 2024), has received honorable mention for the 2025 International Studies Association Book Award (Diplomatic Studies section).
Dr. Tounsel’s articles have appeared in venues including Political Theology, Journal of Africana Religions, and Journal of Religious History, and he has provided Sudan-related commentary for outlets including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Human Rights Watch, and NPR’s Throughline.
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