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Marla Faye Frederick (born 1972), also known as Marla Frederick-McGlathery,[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]

Marla F. Frederick
Other namesMarla Frederick-McGlathery
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.[4][5] She was a postdoctorate fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.[6]

Career and Service

Frederick was an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati.[4] She has been a visiting professor at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and at Northwestern University.[4][7]

In the early 2000s and 2010s, Frederick was Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Harvard University.[8][2][7] In 2008, she was the Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.[6]

She became the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Candler in 2019.[4]

She has served as the President of the Association of Black Anthropologists.[9] Since 2018, Frederick has served on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Religion.[10] As of August 2020, Frederick is the President-Elect of the AAR.[11]

Research

Frederick's first book Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (University of California Press, 2003), which was 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."[12][8]

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.[13][14]

Her first book on the relationship between television and religion was Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global (Stanford University Press, 2015).[15][7] In 2016, Frederick co-authored Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment with Carolyn Moxey Rouse and John L. Jackson, Jr.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Past Winners CRG". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b c "Local Democracy Under Siege". NYU Press. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. ^ "Marla F. Frederick". Candler School of Theology. Retrieved August 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Hanna, Laurel (February 26, 2019). "Marla Frederick to Join Candler Faculty". Candler School of Theology.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Marla Frederick, 2000". Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b "Marla Frederick". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  7. ^ a b c "Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global, Marla F. Frederick". Stanford University Press. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ a b "Between Sundays". University of California Press.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Marla Frederick". Where Religion Lives. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Executive Committee". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "Board of Directors". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ 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)
  13. ^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  14. ^ "SANA Book Prize". North American Dialogue. 11 (2): 27–28. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1556-4819.2008.00013.x. ISSN 1556-4819.
  15. ^ Frederick, Marla Faye. Colored television: American religion gone global. Stanford, California. ISBN 978-0-8047-9700-9. OCLC 927405286.
  16. ^ 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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