Congratulations to Bruce Dorsey and Judith Weisenfeld!

Samira K. Mehta

Bruce Dorsey, Professor of History at Swarthmore College, received the 2015-2016 LGBT Religious History Award for his paper "Making Men What They Should Be: Male Same-Sex Intimacy and Evangelical Religion in Nineteenth-Century New England" published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality (September 2015).

Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University, received an honorable mention for her paper, "'Real True Buds:' Celibacy and Same-Sex Desire Across the Color Line in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement."

The formal announcement of their awards can be found here and a press release with descriptions of their respective work can be found here.

Congratulations to Bruce Dorsey and Judith Weisenfeld!

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