Ansley Quiros

Desired Qualifications: Demonstrated expertise for instruction and scholarship in historic costume and textiles, as well as dress and culture. Knowledge and experience in basic textile conservation, museum practices, and exhibition installation. Curatorial experience in a professional or academic setting. Demonstrated potential for grantsmanship to support scholarship and/or curatorial work.

JOB: TT Assistant/Associate Professor, Apparel & Textile History, Auburn University
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Photo of Coretta Scott King by Diane Arbus in front of their house looking up at the sky in a white eyelet dress.

"Too many of our religious leaders have clearly failed to oppose violence..Some of America’s most popular religious leaders have twisted the teachings of Jesus Christ beyond all recognition to justify an even more massive investment in the weapons of death & military destruction"-Coretta Scott King

How about a little good news on an otherwise wild spring Friday?

Found out that the good people at the @louisvilleinstitute have agreed to fund work on my new book, "Committed: The Lives, Work and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod."

So very honored to learn from and share their beautiful story

Rest well.

EEK the Conference on Faith and History deadline is approaching! (Apr 1). Anyone want to put together a panel with me?? @faithandhistory.bsky.social Need to hear my friends Karen Johnson and Otis Pickett give their addresses!

Thank you also to archivists at Fisk University Special Collections and to the @aschurchhistory.bsky.social, @faithandhistory.bsky.social, and Communal Studies Association for offering a space for feedback in the process!

Delighted that my article on Charles Sherrod and others' 1968 trip to Israel and the BIG religious/political imagination of the late 1960s is finally in print! Thank you to everyone at the Journal of Southern Religion and the archivists at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
jsreligion.org/vol24/quiros/

@forthepoor.bsky.social , Should we propose an ASCH panel on Clarence Jordan with Karen Johnson?

like the incarnation itself

Rest, Rev. 🖤

Apply for this great program! Let me know if you have any questions.
Covid cohort 4 life! @profsamperry.bsky.social @maxperrymueller.bsky.social @tazeenmali.bsky.social @emilyjohnson.bsky.social, Darrius Hills, Leslie Ribovich, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Courtney Irby, Phillip Gollner

Any religious historians done good work on Bethany World Prayer Center? @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

I am speechless.

"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America." Beautiful, @adamserwer.bsky.social

God with Us For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian theology....

Totally! I just have a different take on it somewhat. But always interesting to think through historical successes and failures! uncpress.org/978146964676...

He also learned a lot abt the internal dynamics bw fellow activists! But I do not think the Albany Movement is rightly understood as a failure. That is not how Sherrod and others who stayed/lived there felt about it. It awakened something in people and showed them how to live without fear!

Whoa. Thank you for sharing this with me! Any other information I should have about Church of the Highlands? (That's the specific project; wanting to put its rise in the broader context of ARC/nondenom churches).

Religious Historians: Anyone done/know of work on the rise of nondenominational evangelical churches, especially Association of Related Churches (ARC) affiliated ones? Articles, books, chapters, etc. Thank you! @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @drleahpayne.bsky.social

What a world. You're the best--thanks for the catch!

Well look at that. The inimitable @ansleyquiros.bsky.social gets a cite in Doug Wilson’s new apologia for Christian nationalism. And of course, he misrepresents (or didn’t read) her argument. @prri.org

YES, YOYD, YES! So deserved, dear friend!!

Oh that's a bad call. Should have been Michigan ball. Go BLUE

Thanks for showing present results are the same as in the past!

um YES--https://time.com/7325167/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana-callais/

Call for Papers: Religion Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Religion, to be published Fall 2026. We will accept submissions for this issue through December 15…

CFP: Special issue of *Southern Cultures* on religion, edited by Shari Rabin. Deadline December 15, 2025.

Congratulations, SAM!!!!! So proud to know you.

That's so good! Yay young people!

Did empathy come up? An important part of healthy masculinity (Ortland, etc.) that has gotten coded feminine and been obviously attacked by the Right. Curious if that has filtered down to students..

Any main takeaways from the class?

@baylorhistory.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social