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Jerusha Matsen Neal

Assistant Professor of Homiletics
Divinity School

Research Interests


My current research engages the sermons of preachers displaced by climate catastrophe. I also examine how place and performance are negotiated in the pulpit rhetoric of minoritized preachers.

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


A New Exodus: Responses to Climate Change in the Fijian Methodist Pulpit · January 2021 Awarded by: The Trent Foundation Memorial Fund
When I was a Stranger: Immigration, Preaching, and Religious Imagination · September 2020 Awarded by: Duke Bass Connections
#MyVoiceMyBody: Minoritized Preachers in the Duke Chapel Pulpit · January 2020 Awarded by: Duke Bass Connections