Michael Broyles
Curriculum Vitae
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Broyles-CV
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Education
Ph.D. Arizona State University, Religious Studies (graduation pending: spring 2019)
Dissertation:
Drenched in the Blood of the Lamb: James Baldwin, Religion, and the Formations of Violence
Committee Members
Moses Moore, Chair; Tracy Fessenden; Joel Gereboff
MA ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Religious Studies (graduation: 2013)
Thesis:
“Preachin’ the Blues”: The Intersection of Christian and Blues Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Life and Lyrics of Son House
Committee Members
Moses Moore, Chair; Souad Ali; Lisa Anderson
BA ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Religious Studies (graduation: 2007)
Honors Thesis:
Islam and Rap Music in the United States
Committee Members
Moses Moore, Chair; Mark Sunkett; Jacquelyn Scott
ISLAMIC STUDIES CERTIFICATE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Graduation 2007)
Academic Interests
African Diaspora Religious and Intellectual History
American Religious History
Biography
Colonialism
Cross-Atlantic Religious and Cultural Encounters
Latin American Religious History
Literature and Religion
Music History
Race, Gender, and Queer Studies
Religious Studies Historiography
Theories of Religion
Trans-Atlantic Religious History
Violence and religion
Publications
Periodicals
“Reflections on Writing for the Daily Vault,” The Daily Vault, 2017.
Staff Writer, The Daily Vault: Album Reviews, 2008-2010.
Fiction
Contributor, U.K. Short Fiction, 2011-2012.
Peer Reviewed
“Recognizing the Devil: James Baldwin on Scapegoatism and The Exorcist (1973).” Journal of Religion and Film (In Revision).
Review of Carol Wayne White, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism in Journal of American Studies (Upcoming).
Review of Robert Beckford, Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity in Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 19: Iss. 1, 2013.
Teaching
American Religious Traditions, Arizona State University
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2015
Summer 2015 (3 sections)
Religion and Popular Culture, Arizona State University
Fall 2017
Summer 2016
Spring 2016 (2 sections)
Fall 2015
This assignment included large-scale course design work.
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Ritual, Symbol, and Myth
Summer 2016
Religion in America, Arizona State University
Summer 2016
Fall 2014
Appointments, Awards, and Grants
CLAS Leaders Award
This award honors the display of student leaders in Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2017
Honorarium, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, 2017
Awarded for the speech: “African Diaspora Religion and Music.”
Sun Award, Arizona State University, 2017.
This award recognizes professional excellence in supporting the university’s educational goals.
Graduate and Professional Student Association Individual Travel Grant, Arizona State University, 2016.
University Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2016
President, Graduate Association of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, 2015-2016.
Secretary, Graduate Association of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, 2014-2015
CLAS Academy Forum Speaker Award, Leadership Gala, 2014. Awarded for the speech “‘Good Morning, Blues’: My Encounter with the Religion of the Blues.”
Arizona State University Graduate College Block Grant, 2013-2014.
American Academy of Religion Western Regional Conference, Graduate Student Paper Competition Award, 2013. Awarded for the speech “Sound Recording as Text and Expanding Hermeneutics: Learning from the Discourse on Religion and American Blues Music.”
Graduate College Travel Grant, Delta: Everything Southern conference, Memphis, Tennessee, June 2012.
GATOR Service Award, University of Phoenix, 2009.
Top Performer Award, University of Phoenix, 2009.
Speeches and Presentations
“Lest We Become Possessed: James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and the Relationship between Myth and Violence.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Religion and Violence Panel. Upcoming November, 2017.
“Billie Holiday and Celia Cruz.” with Tracy Fessenden. October, 2017.
“African Diaspora Religion and Music.” Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC). April, 2017. Awarded CGCC Honorarium.
“James Baldwin on Evil: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hannah Arendt, and Frederic Douglass.” International James Baldwin Conference. Baldwin’s Ethics and Rage Panel. The American University of Paris. May, 2016.
“‘…identified with the devil’: James Baldwin on Religion.” Religious Studies Forum. Arizona State University. October, 2015.
“Music as a Pedagogical Tool.” Guest Lecturer, Teaching World Religions. Arizona State University. April 2015.
“Twentieth-Century Prophet: James Baldwin, Religion, and Race.” American Academy of Religion Western Regional Conference. Religion in America Panel. Santa Clara University. March, 2015.
“Thelonious and Me: The Music of Thelonious Monk.” Phoenix Nerd Nite. September, 2014.
“Finding Rupture and Reparation ‘Down by the Riverside’: Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and the Blues-Gospel Challenges to Binary Thought.” American Academy of Religion Western Regional Conference. Religion and the Arts Panel. Loyola Marymount University. March, 2014.
“‘Good Morning, Blues’: My Encounter with the Religion of the Blues.” CLAS Academy Forum Series. Arizona State University, November 2013. Awarded CLAS Academy Forum Speaker Award.
“The West African Trickster in Popular American Music.” Guest Lecturer, Religion and Pop Culture. Arizona State University, April, 2013.
“The ‘Bad Preacher’ Joke and the Problem of Evil in the Mississippi Delta.”Mini Humor Conference. International Society for Humor Studies. Arizona State University. April, 2013.
“Sound Recording as Text and Expanding Hermeneutics: Learning from the Discourse on Religion and American Blues Music.” American Academy of Religion Western Region (AARWR) Conference. Religion in the Americas Panel. Arizona State University. March, 2013. Winner of an AARWR Graduate Student Paper Award.
“Religious Expression in Popular African American Performance.” Guest Lecturer, Religion and Pop Culture. Arizona State University. October, 2012.
“Discovering Blues Recordings as Cultural and Historical Literature.” Ignite Phoenix. May, 2012.
Other Professional Experience
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, Academic Counselor, 2009-2011.
Responsibilities included serving between 500 and 2000 adult students at any given time and running employee workshops regarding education policy, organization, efficiency, and public speaking.
DNA MUSIC ENTERPRISES, Contracted Performer, 2008.
Provided nightly entertainment and piano accompaniment at the Bellagio
Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.
MUSIC MASTERS MUSIC ACADEMY, Instructor, 2006-2008.
Provided piano instruction to both adults and minors.
Responsibilities included creating lesson plans, coordinating class schedules, running public music education events, and working with a development team.
ARMED FORCES ENTERTAINMENT, Contracted Manager/Performer, 2007-2008
Managed an entertainment act for 2 international tours.
Provided piano accompaniment for entertainment acts.
Responsibilities included coordinating 20 entertainment events in 9 countries, organizing international documents for 7 individual performers, and working closely with airlines and US military personnel to ensure the safe travel of performers and their musical equipment.
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX, Tolleson Branch, Activities Coordinator, 2006.
Coordinated educational activities in diverse fields for 200+ youth ages 5 to 18.
Responsibilities included creating lesson plans, managing the year-round bus operation, working with a team to organize public youth service events, and running the Summer Teen Camp.
SERVICE LEARNING OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Science Education Intern, 2006.
Worked with a team to develop and implement science lesson plans for sixth graders and promote higher education.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Undergraduate Honors Teaching Assistant, 2004-2005
Refereed and proofread student research papers.
Conducted student and professor surveys on the effectiveness of the Honors Teaching Assistant Program.
Worked with a partner to create a digital database of information regarding the history of American Eugenics.
Languages
English
Native Speaker
Spanish
Proficient translating of written text
Graduate Foreign Language Exam 2012, Arizona State University: Pass
Completed Berlitz Spanish Language Immersion Program, 2012, Functional +
French
Proficient translating of written text
Graduate Foreign Language Exam 2014, Arizona State University: Pass