Nikki Hoskins

Assistant Professor of Religion and Ecology
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Education

  • BA, Spelman College
  • MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
  • PhD, Drew University

Profile

Nikki Hoskins joined the HDS faculty on July 1, 2024. Her work attends to Christian histories of colonial, racial, and environmental domination.

With the support of the Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant for Scholars of Color, Hoskins is completing a book manuscript, “Blackness Weathered: Decolonial Ethics for the Earth,” where she researches the religious and ecological practices of Black women in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens, an area sociologists identify as one of the most egregious cases of environmental racism in the U.S.

Hoskins is a member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, and on the editorial board of Black Women and Religious Cultures. She has earned several fellowships for her graduate research, including the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, the Louisville Institute Fellowship, and the Forum for Theological Education Fellowship.

Hoskins previously served as Assistant Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at The University of Scranton.

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