Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant

Bio

Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant serves as the Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Director for Black Culture and History and Professor of African, African-American and Diaspora Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A proud native of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, she wholly and critically grapples with the profound questions that inform our understandings of gender, race, culture, and religious expression, evident in her book Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah-Geechee Women (2014) and her award-winning documentary short death.everything.nothing. (2020). Whether investigating practices of specific communities, exploring cultural production at the popular level, considering the impact of new technologies, or creating documentary shorts, critical to Dr. Manigault-Bryant’s research and teaching are explorations of how Black women throughout the Diaspora engage religion and spirituality to navigate the contours of life.