Ambre Dromgoole is a PhD student in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College & Conservatory in 2015 with a B.A. in Musical Studies and Religion. She then obtained an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music with a concentration in Black Religion and the Arts. Ambre is interested in the convergence of Black religion and popular culture, focusing on the emergence of sonic spirituality and various musical genres from women in the Black Holiness-Pentecostal tradition