Ashon Crawley

Ashon Crawley speaking at a conference in 2014.

Ashon T. Crawley is an American religious studies scholar, author, and multidisciplinary artist. He is a professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, on aesthetics and performance as modes of social imagination, and The Lonely Letters, an epistolary, semi-autobiographical work. The Lonely Letters won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction. Crawley is working on a book about the Hammond organ’s historical role in Black church and social life.

Education

Crawley earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, then received a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University in 2007. In 2013, he completed his PhD at Duke University.

Publications

Awards

Year Award Nominated work Result Ref.
2019 American Musicological Society Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award Blackpentecostal Breath Winner
2020 Believer Book Award for Nonfiction The Lonely Letters Winner
2021 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction The Lonely Letters Winner

References

  1. ↑ Scott, Mikana (2017-07-01). "Book Review: Blackpentecostal breath: The aesthetics of possibility". Journal of Black Studies. 48 (5): 528–531. doi:10.1177/0021934717706973. ISSN 0021-9347. S2CID 152085028. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  2. ↑ Shelley, Braxton (2020-02-29). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility". Yale Journal of Music & Religion. 5 (2). doi:10.17132/2377-231X.1183. ISSN 2377-231X. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  3. ↑ Félix-Jäger, Steven (2017-01-01). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, written by Ashon T. Crawley". Pneuma. 39 (3): 391–394. doi:10.1163/15700747-03903007. ISSN 0272-0965. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Jasmine (2017). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon Crawley (review)". Dance Research Journal. 49 (2): 109–111. doi:10.1017/S0149767717000274. ISSN 1940-509X. S2CID 193934828.
  5. ↑ Chevan, Jesse (Spring 2020). "View of Crawley, Ashon. 2020. The Lonely Letters. Durham: Duke University Press. | Current Musicology". Current Musicology. 106. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Pak, Yumi (2020). "The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley (review)". American Studies. 59 (2): 57–58. doi:10.1353/ams.2020.0017. ISSN 2153-6856. S2CID 242439770. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  7. 1 2 "2021 Winners". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  8. 1 2 "2020 Believer Book Award Winners and Finalists". Believer Magazine. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  9. ↑ "Ashon Crawley". Department of Religious Studies. University of Virginia. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  10. ↑ "Made Instrument, an Introduction". School of Religion | Queen's University. 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  11. ↑ "Volume 68 Number 25". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  12. ↑ "Ashon Crawley: Performance art can express the deep despair and deep joy of the church experience". Faith and Leadership. 2025-05-05. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  13. ↑ "Presenters". National Museum of African American History and Culture. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  14. ↑ "Ashon Crawley". Knowledge Commons. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  15. ↑ Crawley, Ashon (2013). Black Sacred Breath: Historicity, Performance and the Aesthetics of BlackPentecostalism (PhD thesis). Duke University. hdl:10161/7215. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  16. ↑ "Blackpentecostal Breath". Fordham University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  17. ↑ "The Lonely Letters". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  18. ↑ "Past Recipients Archive". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2025-05-14.