Presentations “Holy Profanity” Presenters Skyler Ellen Gibbon Is Anti-Semitism in America Different: The Response of Pittsburgh to the Shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue Presenters Peter Gluck Victims of God: Change, Divinity and Humanity in Octavia E. Butler's Parable Novels Presenters Peter Charles Herman African American Cultural Preservation Through Religion in the Antebellum South Presenters Nicole Mioduszewski The Ancestor as the Foundation for Success: The Relationship Between the Ancestor Figure and the Protagonist’s Success in African American Literature Presenters Diane M. Todd (Bucci) Session chairs Pamela A Detrixhe