Dr. Wallace Best

Professor

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Biography

Wallace joined the Princeton faculty in 2007 and holds appointments in the Departments of Religion and African American Studies, also serving as a faculty affiliate in the Department of History. He is the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. As a scholar of African American religious history, he is the author of 'Passionately Human, Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952,' published by Princeton University Press, and 'Langston’s Salvation: American Religion in the Age of Harlem,' published by New York University Press, which won the 2018 award for 'Textual Studies' from the American Academy of Religion. He is currently working on a book titled 'Spiritual Capital in Black America: Harlem’s World Religion Churches,' under contract with New York University Press. His selected publications include 'Everybody Knew ‘That Way’: Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality in the Post-World War II Period,' and 'Battle for Soul City: John Roach Straton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in New York, 1922-1935.'

Research Interests

Awards

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Textual Studies Award

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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award

Requirements for Princeton University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Speaking
Required:27
IELTS
Speaking
Required:8
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in engineering or science Strong background in mathematics, materials, physics, or related engineering
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Specialization Notes

GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.