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Lerone A. Martin
Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, Professor of Religious Studies and of African and African American Studies
BioLerone A. Martin is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor in Religious Studies, African & African American Studies, and The Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar. He also serves as the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute and Senior Editor of the Institute's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project.
Martin is an award-winning author. His latest book, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King, Jr." chronicles the overlooked adolescence and calling of Martin Luther King, Jr. It will be published by HarperCollins in May 2026.
Martin is also the author of "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism." The book, published in February 2023 by Princeton University Press, has garnered praise from numerous publications including: The Nation, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Religion News Service, Publisher’s Weekly, and History Today.
In 2014 he published, "Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Making of Modern African American Religion." The book received the 2015 first book award by the American Society of Church History, an affiliated organization of the American History Association (AHA).
In support of his research, Martin has received a number of nationally recognized fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Council of Learned Societies, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), The Teagle Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion, and the Forum for Theological Exploration.
Most recently, Martin became Co-Director of $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund “The Crossroads Project,” a four-year, multi-institution project to advance public understanding of the history, politics, and cultures of African American religions.
He has also been recognized for his teaching, receiving institutional teaching awards as well as fellowships from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
His commentary and writing have been featured on The NBC Today Show, The History Channel, PBS, CSPAN, CNN, and NPR, as well as in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also served as an advisor on the critically acclaimed PBS documentary series The History of Gospel Music & Preaching.
Lerone is currently working on a graphic novel version of "Young King," also to be published by HarperCollins. -
Richard McFadden Martin
Adjunct Professor, Applied Physics
BioRichard M. Martin is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he served from 1987 to 2008. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and he received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1969 where his advisor was Morrel H. Cohen. From 1969 to 1971, he was a post-doc at Bell Labs and from 1971 to 1987 was a scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is author of two books: "Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods (Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2nd edition 2020.) and "Interacting Electrons: Theory and Computational Approaches" along with coauthors Lucia Reining and David Ceperley (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His avocation since 2008 is the African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA), where he was a founder and organizer of schools each other year from 2008 to 2025, and chair of the International Advisory Panel.
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Richard Martin
Anthony E. and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics
BioI have taught for 26 years at Stanford; previously, I taught 18 years at Princeton. I am working on several books, concerning Homeric religion; Aristophanes; and comparative epic poetry.
