Work with Actors Theatre

Dr. McCormack is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Pan-African Studies and he is the current director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville. He earned his PhD in 2013 from the Vanderbilt University Department of Religion, where he was also a fellow. He is also a proud undergraduate alum of UofL. His research explores the intersections between Black religion, popular culture, the arts, and activism. He is one of the university’s inaugural Ascending Stars Fellows and an Academic Research Fellow at the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. Dr. McCormack is also a frequent speaker and lecturer, having been invited to speak at a range of institutions from HBCUs to Ivies. But he finds his deepest joy in speaking outside of academia: at churches, public schools, community centers, and other places where everyday folks are gathered and engaged in collective meaning-making and ongoing struggles for freedom.