Convocation: Charles H. Long

New Orleans as an American City: Origins, Exchanges, Materialities, and Religion." Professor emeritus of history of religions and former director of the Research Center for Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Charles H. Long has a unique perspective from which to speak of the general meaning of religion in history and culture, and specifically about African religions in Africa and in the Atlantic world. He participated in establishing the first curriculum for the study of religion in the College of the University of Chicago. Through his teaching and a rich and distinguished list of publications, he has influenced three generations of historians of religion and African-American studies.