Nicole Myers Turner
Ph.D. Student
turnern@sas.upenn.edu
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College; Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary
Fields
U.S. History, African American History, Religion and Memory
Research Interests
I am interested in the memory of slavery; emancipation and reconstruction; 20 th century African American history; African American religious history.
Advisor
Personal Statement
A stimulating intellectual journey through politics and religious studies has lead me to study religion, religious institutions, memory, and slavery using the historian's methodology. My interest in religion as a cultural and political entity began in high school where I studied religious syncretisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. This was transformed into the study of religion as a social and political tool in slave rebellions and in the civil rights movement. Its latest incarnation has been in the study of the memory of slavery in the African Methodist Episcopal Church's newspaper, The Christian Recorder, which was the subject of my master's thesis. In my studies at Penn, I hope to continue cultivating my knowledge of United States History along these thematic lines.
