Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School, working at the intersection of Christian thought, race theory, and decolonial and environmental studies. His book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale University Press, 2010) won the American Academy of Religion’s Book of the Year in Constructive-Reflective Studies and is widely regarded as one of the most significant theological works of the past quarter-century. He also received the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for that work. His later book After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Eerdmans, 2020) won Publishers Weekly’s book of the year and the 2023 Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, and his commentary on Acts was named Reference Book of the Year by the Academy of Parish Clergy.