Charles Marsh is a professor of religious studies and director of the Project of Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and the University of Virginia, where he earned his PhD in 1989.
Marsh’s numerous books include God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1997) which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion; The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today (2005); Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity (2007); and a memoir, The Last Days: A Son’s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South (2001). Marsh is currently writing Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts and a 2010 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
