Amaryah Shaye Armstrong is a scholar of race, religion, and sexuality. She is completing work on her first book, Sentimental Theologies: Sense, Sex, and the Reproduction of Black Significance, which brings together black feminist thought and queer theory alongside political theological genealogy to show how, after Reconstruction, the social forms of black freedom so often came to depend on a redemptive family romance for their imaginations of black legitimacy. Beyond the book, her work tracks the theological roots of the crisis of illegitimacy that haunts racial blackness and specializes in making the cultural work of black religion and the erotics of theological sense-making available for use in black studies more generally.