Ashon Crawley
American scholar of religion, author, and artist
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Ashon T. Crawley is an American religious studies scholar, author, and multidisciplinary artist. He is a professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, on aesthetics and performance as modes of social imagination,[1][2][3][4] and The Lonely Letters, an epistolary, semi-autobiographical work.[5][6] The Lonely Letters won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction[7] and the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction.[8] Crawley is working on a book about the Hammond organ’s historical role in Black church and social life.[9][10]
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Education
Crawley earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, then received a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University in 2007.[11][12][13][14] In 2013, he completed his PhD at Duke University.[15]
Publications
- Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, published October 3, 2016 by Fordham University Press[16]
- The Lonely Letters, published April 10, 2020 by Duke University Press[17]
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| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | American Musicological Society Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award | Blackpentecostal Breath | Winner | [18] |
| 2020 | Believer Book Award for Nonfiction | The Lonely Letters | Winner | [8] |
| 2021 | Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction | The Lonely Letters | Winner | [7] |