Marla F. Frederick

Marla Faye Frederick[1][2] is an American ethnographer and scholar, with focus on African-American religious experience. She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.[3] Her work addresses a range of topics including race, gender, religion and media studies.[4]

Marla F. Frederick
EducationPhD, Duke University (2000)
Alma materBA, Spelman College (1994)

Education

Frederick earned a BA in English from Spelman College and in 2000, earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University.[5][6] She was a postdoctorate fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.[7]

Career and service

Frederick was an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati.[5] She has been a visiting professor at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and at Northwestern University.[5][8]

In the early 2000s and 2010s, Frederick was Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Harvard University.[9][2][8] In 2008, she was the Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.[7]

Frederick became the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Candler in 2019.[5]

She has served as the President of the Association of Black Anthropologists.[10] Frederick was the president of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 2021.[11][12]

On August 24, 2023, it was announced that Frederick will become the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School.

Research

Frederick's first book Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (University of California Press, 2003), an ethnography of black church women in Halifax County, North Carolina, was praised by reviewers; the review in Contemporary Sociology described it as a work that "puts a human face on so many sociological concepts and categories."[13][9]

In 2007, Frederick participated in a seven-author collaborative project in which scholars embedded themselves in North Carolina communities and observed how American democracy functioned in an "ordinary" community beyond just the act of voting.[2] The resulting book was Local Democracy Under Siege Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics, which won the 2008 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Prize.[14][15]

Her first book on the relationship between television and religion was Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global (Stanford University Press, 2015).[16][8] In 2016, Frederick co-authored Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment with Carolyn Moxey Rouse and John L. Jackson Jr.[17]

References
  1. "Past Winners CRG". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  2. "Local Democracy Under Siege". NYU Press. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. "Marla F. Frederick". Candler School of Theology. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  4. Writer, Abby Ann Ramsey, Staff (11 February 2022). "Prof. Marla Frederick tells 'the story of Black life' through HCBUs in religious studies lecture". The Daily Beacon. Retrieved 2022-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Hanna, Laurel (February 26, 2019). "Marla Frederick to Join Candler Faculty". Candler School of Theology.
  6. "Marla Frederick, 2000". Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  7. "Marla Frederick". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  8. Frederick, Marla (16 December 2015). Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global, Marla F. Frederick. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804790949. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  9. Frederick, Marla (November 2003). Between Sundays. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520233942.
  10. "Marla Frederick". Where Religion Lives. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  11. "Executive Committee". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  12. "AAR Presidents". aarweb.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  13. Frederick, Marla Faye (November 2003). Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93645-4. OCLC 55749295.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  14. Holland, Dorothy (2007). Local democracy under siege: activism, public interests, and private politics. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9088-5. OCLC 191952660.
  15. "SANA Book Prize". North American Dialogue. 11 (2): 27–28. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1556-4819.2008.00013.x. ISSN 1556-4819.
  16. Frederick, Marla Faye (16 December 2015). Colored television: American religion gone global. Stanford, California. ISBN 978-0-8047-9700-9. OCLC 927405286.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. Rouse, Carolyn Moxley; Jackson Jr., John L. J; Frederick, Martha F. (November 2016). Televised redemption : Black religious media and racial empowerment. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-7691-4. OCLC 960701703.
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