Carol Wayne White (Presidential Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Bucknell University [2018-21]) specializes in Poststructuralist Philosophies, Process Philosophy, Religious Naturalism, Science and Religion, and Critical Theory & Religion.
Her books include Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism (2016), which won a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles; The Legacy of Anne Conway (1631-70): Reverberations from a Mystical Naturalism (2009); and Poststructuralism, Feminism, and Religion: Triangulating Positions (2002). White has published numerous essays in philosophy of religion and on religious naturalism; her work in philosophy and critical religious thought has also appeared in Zygon: The Journal of Religion and Science, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Philosophia Africana, and Religion & Public Life. White has received international awards and national fellowships, including an Oxford University Fellowship in Religion and Science, a Science and Religion Grant from The John Templeton Foundation, and a NEH Fellowship.
White is currently completing a book with Oxford UP on Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964), which explores the unique set of theoretical perspectives, narrative strategies, and epistemological claims in Cooper’s distinctive model of African American philosophy. She is also doing research for another book project that explores the insights of religious naturalism expressed in contemporary North American nature poets and writers.