Dara Delgado

Dara Coleby Delgado (University of Dayton) is the Bishop James Mills Thoburn Chair of Religious Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, as well as affiliate faculty in Black Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Coleby Delgado’s research interests include Race, Gender, and Popular Culture in American Religious Life. Her research has been funded by the AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, and she has written about Pentecostals/Pentecostalism in scholarly journals, edited volumes, and popular news outlets—RNS and Political Theology Network.

Currently, Coleby Delgado is continuing her work on Bishop Ida Bell Robinson, founder of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, in a forthcoming book with Penn State University Press. The text uses a social-historical frame that employs various theories around race, gender, and class to examine Bishop Robinson’s life and work critically.

Along with the text mentioned above and of note among her other projects, she is excited about two chapter essays in Penn State University Press’s Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements. The first is part of an edited volume on Oneness Pentecostals, which examines the history of gender and authority in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (February 2023). The second is part of an edited volume on social engagement within the Pentecostal-Holiness traditions. It looks at the work of Pentecostal social activist and civil rights leader Bishop Arthur M. Brazier (Forthcoming, 2024).