Dara Delgado
Assistant Professor
My research interests include Race, Gender, and Popular Culture in American Religious Life during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. From 2018 to 2019, I was an AAUW Dissertation Fellow and a 2023-2025 Public Religion Research Fellow. I have written about Pentecostals/Pentecostalism in scholarly journals (The Journal of Black Religious Thought, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, and Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity) and edited volumes. Moreover, I have contributed to popular news outlets like Religion News Service, Political Theology Network, and Religion Dispatches. I am continuing my work on Bishop Ida Bell Robinson, founder of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, in a forthcoming book with Penn State University Press (2026). The text employs a social-historical frame that utilizes various theories on race, gender, and class to provide a critical examination of Bishop Robinson's life and work. As part of my service to the guild, I am an Associate Editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies, Chair of the History Interest Group for the Society of Pentecostal Studies, and a member of the steering committee for the Pentecostal-Charismatic section of the American Academy of Religion.
Education
Ph.D., Theological Studies, University of Dayton
M.T.S., Pentecostal Studies, Tyndale University College and Seminary
M.A. Northeastern Seminary
B.A., History and Religious Studies (Minor), Niagara University
Specialization in Teaching
PAR 103 Exploring Religions
PAR 125 Scriptures of the World’s Religions
PAR 225 Religion and Gender
PAR 242 Religion in America
PAR 305 Black Religions Along the Cape Fear
Research Interests
American Religion (late 19th to mid 20th Century Christianity, Revivalism, New Religious Movements)
Religion and American Socioolitical Life
Religion and Pop Culture
Religion and Gender
Race, Religion, and the Interwar Period of the Migration Era
Religion, Health, and Healing/Death and Dying
Professional Service
Associate Editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies
Chair of the History Interest Group for the Society of Pentecostal Studies
Steering committee for the Pentecostal-Charismatic section of the American Academy of Religion