Curriculum Vitae
Education
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2000
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994
B.A. English (magna cum laude)
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion, Harvard University, 2003-present
Visiting Professor, Office of Black Women in Church and Society, Interdenominational Theological Center, 2002-2003
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies and Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies Department, University of Cincinnati, 2001-2002
Instructor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 2000
Instructor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 1999
Teaching Assistant to Naomi Quinn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 1999
Teaching Assistant to Orin Starn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, 1998
Teaching Assistant to Pamela Brayboy-Jackson, Deptartment of African American Studies, Duke University, 1996
Fellowships
Womanist Scholar, Interdenominational Theological Center, 2002 - 2003
Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2000 - 2001
Duke Endowment Fellow, Duke University, 1994-1999
John Hope Franklin Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Duke University, 1999
Women's Studies Race and Gender Research Award, Duke University, 1998
North Carolina Public Sphere's Research Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill, 1997 - 1998
Professional Associations
Member, American Anthropological Association, 1996-2003
Member, American Academy of Religion, 2001-2003
National Co-Chair, Association of Black Anthropologists, Student Interest Group, 1999/2000
Society for the Anthropology of North America, 1998-2000
Papers
"Black Identity in the Chota Valley (Ecuador): Understanding Africa and the Dispersion,” Instituto de Liderazco Afrocristiano, Chota Valley, Ecuador, 2002
"Unity and Change: What African Americans in the Chota Valley and the United States Can Learn from One Another,” Instituto de Liderazco Afrocristiano, Chota Valley, Ecuador, 2002
"Televangelism and Shifting Discourses of Racial Progress,” Conference, Dialogues on the Diaspora: Blackness in a Globalized World, Association of Black Anthropologists, Panama City, Panama, 2002
"Women, Faith and Activism,” Women's Studies Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002
"Faith and the Black Public Sphere,” Barnard College, 2001
"Faith and the Black Public Sphere,” Religion and Politics Series, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2001
"The Cultural Politics of Religious Experience,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1999
"African American Women's Spirituality: Paradigms of Activism,” Conversations Series, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, 1999
"The Question of Progress: Race and Gender in Rural North Carolina,” Annual Meetings Society for Cultural Anthropology, San Francisco, 1999
"'Up on the Uprise': Race and Privilege Amidst Economic Restructuring in Eastern North Carolina" - Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, 1998
"Changing Rural Landscapes,” Academic Session of the 2nd Annual Black Land Loss Conference, Tillery, North Carolina, 1998
"Borders as Agents of Exclusion: A Case in Halifax County North Carolina,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1997
"African American Women's Spirituality: Forms of Empowerment," Women's Studies Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,1996
"African American Women's Autobiography: Paradigms of Activism," DANA Research Seminar, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1994
Books
Between Sundays: Black Women's Everyday Struggles of Faith (Berklee: University of California Press, 2003)
Articles
"The Marketization of Education: Public Schools for Private Ends,” Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 33, no. 1, with Lesley Bartlett, Thad Guldbrandsen, Enrique Murrillo, 2002.
Works in Progress
Downsizing Democracy - collaborative book project under review, with Dorothy Holland, Cathy Lutz, Don Nonini, et.al., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.