Timothy B. Tyson has been awarded the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for Blood Done Sign My Name, his memoir analyzing the social and spiritual effects of a racially motivated murder in his hometown. Winner of the 16th Grawemeyer religion prize, his work was selected from among 57 nominations from six countries.

Tyson, a senior scholar of documentary studies at Duke University, also holds appointments at Duke's divinity school and history department and is adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina.