XAVIER PICKETT University of Virginia Minor Hall 108 Charlottesville, VA

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1 XAVIER PICKETT University of Virginia Minor Hall 108 Charlottesville, VA EDUCATION Ph.D., Religion & Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, Glenside, PA, B.B.A., Marketing, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University, Religious Studies Program, 2018 present. Lecturer, University of Virginia, Dept. of African American & African Studies, Lecturer, Princeton University, Dept. of African American Studies, AWARDS & HONORS Pre-Doctoral Residential Research Fellowship, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE) Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, The Forum for Theological Exploration Dissertation Fellowship, The Fund for Theological Education Doctoral Fellowship, Merit Tuition Scholarship at Princeton Theological Seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary Leadership Scholarship, Southern Company Academic Scholarship, Golden Key International Honor Society, RESEARCH INTERESTS African American Religion, Religious Ethics, 19th & 20th century African American Literature, Emotions, Pragmatism, Political Theory, Moral Psychology, New Religious Movements, Sociology and Social Theory, 19th & 20th century African American History, African American Philosophy.!1

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Virginia, Lecturer Black Theology: From Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter, Summer Princeton University, Lecturer Race is Socially Constructed: Now What?, Spring Intro. to the Study of African American Cultural Practices, Fall Race is Socially Constructed: Now What?, Spring Intro. to the Study of African American Cultural Practices, Fall 2014 Princeton University, PUPP Teaching Fellow Literature and Ethics, Fall 2015 Spring Princeton Theological Seminary, Teaching Assistant Philosophy of Religion, Fall American Religion, American Literature, Fall American Religion, American Literature, Fall Critical Race Theory as Theological Challenge, Spring Summer Institute for the Gifted, Instructor Roots of Human Behavior (Psychology), Summer Improvement Science, Summer W. E. B. Du Bois Scholars Institute, Lecturer Ethics & Self-Development, Summer (Re)creating the Self: Literature, Race and Gender, Summer Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando, Seminar Organizer/Lecturer Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Reformed Theology, Fall Feminist/Womanist Theology and Biblical Hermeneutics, Spring Gender and Feminist Theory, Spring African American Religious Thought, Fall Introduction to Black Theology, Spring Black Reformed Theological Thought, Fall 2008 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS The Political and Theological Failures of White Evangelicalism, Invited lecture in Intercultural City Ministry course at Covenant Theological Seminary, February Black Religion in a Crossroads Age, Invited panelist for the Mid-Atlantic Region Group at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November Democracy Under Siege: Gleanings from African American Political Thinkers, Invited presentation at the Dialogues on Race and Inequity at the University of Virginia, September Learning from Malcolm X in the Age of Trump, Paper presented at the Muslim Student Association Colloquium at the University of Virginia, February Why Black Theology Then, Why Black Theology Now, Invited lecture in Intercultural City Ministry course at Covenant Theological Seminary, February 2017.!2

3 William James s Saint as Proto-Prophetic Pragmatist, Paper presented in the Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November The Future of Theological Studies: Black Religion, Neuroscience, and Technology, Invited presentation at the Workgroup on Constructive Theology at Vanderbilt University, April The Formation of the Black Theological Mind and the Reformation of the White Theological Mind, Paper presented at the Graduate Student Forum at Princeton Theological Seminary, February The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Blackness in James Cone, Invited lecture in African American Religious & Political Thought course at Yale University, April A Scaffolding of James Baldwin s Moral Psychology, Paper presented in the Ethics Section at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November Octavia Butler and the Emergence of Religious Humanism in a World of Change Lecture in American Religion, American Literature course at Princeton Theological Seminary, November From Lament to Love: James Baldwin s Letter to America s Michael Browns, Lecture in Intro. to the Study of African American Cultural Practices course at Princeton University, November Religious Skepticism and Self-Creation in Baldwin s Go Tell It on the Mountain, Lecture in American Religion, American Literature course at Princeton Theological Seminary, October A Country That Cannot Mourn: James Baldwin and A Moral Psychology of America, Paper presented in the Theology and Religious Reflection Unit at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November From Consistency to Change: Toward an Earthseed Moral Vision in Octavia Butler s The Parable of the Sower, Lecture in American Religion, American Literature course at Princeton Theological Seminary, November James Baldwin and American Racial Melancholia, Lecture in Critical Race Theory as Theological Challenge course at Princeton Theological Seminary, March The Ethics of an Interdisciplinary Democratic Space and Public Theological Discourse, Paper presented at the University of Virginia Graduate Colloquium on Theology, Ethics, and Culture, April Reconsidering the Marginalization and Possibilities of James Baldwin s Religious Identity, Paper presented at Fordham University Graduate Theology Conference, April Historicizing Black Theology and Hermeneutics, Lecture in Introduction to the Old Testament course at Westminster Theological Seminary, March A Socio-Theological Perspective on Policing, Lecture at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, March 2007.!3

4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE President and Co-Founder, Reformed Blacks of America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, 2005 present. Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) Teaching Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Graduate Fellow, Princeton University, The Office of Religious Life, Princeton, NJ, Instructor, Summer Institute for the Gifted, Princeton, NJ, Lecturer, W. E. B. Du Bois Scholars Institute, Princeton, NJ, Founding Program Director, Becoming Role-Models for Successful Manhood, Newark, NJ, Researcher, Gospel & Culture Project at Westminster Theological Seminary, Glenside, PA, Business Operation Leadership Development (BOLD) Analyst, Navistar Financial Corporation, Atlanta, GA, Financial Analyst, Southern Company, Atlanta, GA, E-business Analyst Intern, Southern Company, Atlanta, GA, ECCLESIASTICAL EXPERIENCE Civic Engagement Intern, Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA, Church Planting Intern, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Norfolk, VA, Director of Christian Education, Christ Liberation Fellowship Church, Philadelphia, PA, Co-planter and Overseer of Christian Education, Berean Church of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, Youth Pastor, Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, PUBLICATIONS Articles: The Unforeseen Moral and Political Vision of Black Rage, Raritan (forthcoming 2018). The Sacred Fire of James Cone, Black Perspectives (forthcoming 2018). Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rebirth of the American Citizen. Capital Commentary (January 2011). Policing Black Communities. Public Justice Report (2007, Quarter 1). ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS & ACTIVITIES American Academy of Religion Co-chair of Black Theology inaugural program unit for the Mid- Atlantic Region, 2017 present. Featured Panel Organizer, Figures, Debates, and Themes of Evasion: Engaging Cornel West's Neglected Contribution to the Pragmatist Canon for the Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group, November 2016.!4

5 Member, 2009 present. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, VA Invited talk for the Reading the Black Intellectual series, January Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando African American Imagination and Theology Project, Founder and Director, Envision Scholars Network Fellow, African / African American Student Fellowship at Westminster Theological Seminary President, Member, American Association of Blacks in Energy, Taking Our Unbroken Commitment Home (T.O.U.C.H.) Committee Member, Citizens of Georgia Power Member, INROADS Atlanta, Volunteer, !5