Carolyn M. Jones Medine is a Professor in the Religion Department and Professor and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia. Medine writes about Black Buddhist experience, on practitioners like Alice Walker and Jan Willis. She is the co-author, with Dr. John Randolph LeBlanc of Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Spaces and Hybrid Identities (Palgrave 2013). Her most recent article is on the work of Charles H. Long, “Ellipsis: Deconstructive Practice in the Work of Charles H. Long,” in American Religion (Spring 2021).