Dr. Justin Michael Reed (he/him/his) is assistant professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Interim Director of Black Church Studies at Louisville Seminary. He was raised in Los Angeles, CA, and has earned degrees from Stanford (BA), Harvard (MTS), and Princeton Theological Seminary (PhD).

Currently, he is writing The Injustice of Noah’s Curse (under contract with Oxford University Press), a book that combines his interest in Genesis, critical race theory, history of consequences, and literary approaches to the Bible.