IRAAS Newsletter - Winter 2016 Edition IRAAS Newsletter Winter 2016 | Page 9

You moderated a panel at amazingly exciting and In terms of what we do as a “Are the Gods Afraid of successful, and the model for graduate program, training Black Sexuality? Religion the kind of conference that scholars is one track, but there and the Burdens of Black IRAAS should continue to do are others. Partly what I am Sexual Politics,” a conference in the future: breaking down interested in doing as Director recently sponsored by the boundaries between church of Graduate Studies is making IRAAS. Can you discuss how and state, the boundaries more visible the ways in which the conference ties into your between the activists and people might get a master’s to work? scholars, and really coming work in international affairs So, let me say this: that together to think about what it and social policy. My interest conference was hot. It, in fact, is that we share as cultural is twofold: to do work that was one of the best conferences workers and what langua