Corwin Malcolm Davis is a burgeoning scholar, cultural writer, and public educator who uses his many strengths to reimagine and to design spaces and practices of learning and care, especially for those in neglected populations.

An honors graduate of Belmont University, Corwin earned the Master of Divinity Degree with a concentration in Black Religion and Culture Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School as the named “Dean’s Scholar.” During his time at Vanderbilt he was a Cal Turner Fellow for Moral Leadership, and was awarded the Robert Lewis Butler Award and the William A. Newcomb Prize, awarded to the student who best exemplifies the minister as theologian.

Corwin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University, where his research engages Black religious practices, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and art/performance studies. At Emory, he has received the George W. Woodruff Fellowship, the Centennial Scholars Fellowship, and externally, fellowships from the Louisville Institute, The Forum for Theological Exploration, and Sacred Writes. Corwin currently serves in executive leadership as the Associate Director for the national Theological Education between the Times project, and as the Director of The Center for Academic Success for Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

A third-generation clergy, The Reverend Davis is also an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where he has served as a religious educator and pastor, currently serving as an associate at First AME Church: Bethel in Harlem. His service for the church also includes his role as a consultant and editor for the AME Church Publishing House. Davis currently resides in New York, NY, in the village of Harlem.

Curriculum vitae can be found here: CV.