Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Johari Jabir, Associate Professor, Black Studies, “No Ways Tired: The Life Legacy and Making of the King of Gospel, Rev. James Cleveland”
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series
September 24, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Johari Jabir is a contemplative artist, scholar, and aspiring episcopal priest. Johari was born and raised in the Black Working-class community of St. Louis, MO. He is a roots musician with modern tendencies; gospel music has been the primary vehicle for his musicianship. Johari is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UIC.
Johari’s work as a musician overlaps with his scholarship and teaching. His first book, Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the ‘Gospel Army’ of the Civil War considers the nightly conjuring practices of the soldiers in ring shout. He is currently working a second book entitled, No Ways Tired: A Biographical Meditation on Rev. James Cleveland, the King of Gospel Music.
As a teacher, Johari specializes in early undergraduate education. He is taught inside prisons as a prison abolitionist, and other sites of community-based education.
Date posted
May 28, 2025
Date updated
May 29, 2025