Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

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“Black Church Rumor: Sexual Violence and Black (Gay) Gospel's Reverend James Cleveland.”  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies  28, no. 1 (2022): 115-144.

“Anti-Commodified Black Studies and the Radical Roots of Black Christian Education,” Souls 22:1 (January-March 2021), 104-117.

“Discredited Knowledges and Black Religious Ways of Knowing,”  J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists  9, no. 1 (2021): 41-49.

“Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum,” The Journal of African American History 106, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 117-21.

“‘Queering’ African American Religious History,” Religion Compass (2019).

Ahmad Greene-Hayes and Joy James, “Cracking the Codes of Black Power Struggles: Hacking, Hacked, and Black Lives Matter.” The Black Scholar 47, no. 3 (2017): 68-78.

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Selected Features

Dr. Greene-Hayes talks about Little Richard in Vintage Rock.

Underworld Work in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2025.

Excerpt from Episode 4 of the PBS Gospel Series where Dr. Greene-Hayes is featured discussing insights from his 2022 GLQ article, “Black Church Rumor: Sexual Violence and Black (Gay) Gospel’s Rev. James Cleveland”