Office Hours with… Todne Thomas
Yale’s Todne Thomas discusses why ethnography is so important to her as a citizen and a scholar, and its power to challenge our assumptions about religion.
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Yale’s Todne Thomas discusses why ethnography is so important to her as a citizen and a scholar, and its power to challenge our assumptions about religion.
Yale will honor the civil rights leader with several events, including a library exhibit, a poetry slam — and a public conversation about educational justice.
From April 13-14, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will host two days of events with the legendary Clark Sisters, a group that has been on the vanguard of gospel music for more than half a century. Winners of three Grammy Awards, and with sixteen albums to their credit, the Clark Sisters are the highest-selling female gospel group in history.
From kincraft to Black Church burnings, Professor Todne Thomas teaches about the multidimensional character of human experience Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, is an esteemed ethno-grapher and an expert on kinship studies. But when it comes to titles, Thomas prefers something more personal: “My favorite titles are daughter and mother,” she shares. Her preferred honorifics point to who Thomas is at her core—a person who understands the eminence of connection.