Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones ("AVA") is Assistant Professor of Theology and Africana Studies in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Her scholarship specializes in Mariology, technology (AI), and Womanist and Black feminist thought. Her first monograph, Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology, offers a theological account of the rise of the global sex trade. Centering the icon of the Black Madonna, the book holds accountable theological notions of purity and rape at the site of black flesh. Her second project, See No Evil: Technology, Violence, and the Future of Black Being (in progress), explores how visual technologies impact public perception of violence and Black death, developing a theological framework for Black protest.

AVA is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Studies Association, the National Women’s Studies Associations, and the Society of Christian Ethics.