Gary Dorrien teaches at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. His book Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology won the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers for the best book in Theology and Religious Studies of 2012. He has two books forthcoming from Yale University Press, The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (2015) and Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel (2016).