When news of Disney’s plan to reboot its wildly successful Sister Act franchise broke last week, media and fan reactions were as swift as they were predictable. From TIME to The Guar dian, divinely…
Shannen Dee Williams
Shannen Dee Williams is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is currently completing the manuscript for her first book, Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America. When published, it will be just the first scholarly monograph to examine the lives and labors of black Catholic sisters in the twentieth-century United States.
