Faculty

Marla F. Frederick

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion

Marla Frederick earned her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University in 2000. Her research interests include the African American religious experience, the political economy of the U.S. South, democracy and racial formation.

After completing her graduate work, Professor Frederick continued her research as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion where she worked on the completion of her first manuscript, Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith. Published in 2003 (University of California Press), it is an ethnographic study of accommodation and resistance theories as they relate to the practice of faith among Baptist women in the South.

In addition to her research, Professor Frederick has taught at the University of Cincinnati and served as a Visiting Womanist Scholar at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Ga. Currently, she is engaged in research on the influence of religious media, more specifically television ministries, on constructions of race and gender in the African Diaspora. She is a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for 2008-2009.