Julia Robinson-Harmon (Ph.D., Michigan State University) joined the UNC Charlotte faculty after teaching at Western Michigan University for three years and five years at Alma College She teaches courses in African American History, African American Religion and the Religions of the African Diaspora. She is currently working on her first book titled Establishing the Kingdom of God: The Life and Leadership of  Rev. Robert L. Bradby, 19^th Pastor of Detroit’s Second Baptist Church under Wayne State University Press.

Contact
Julia Robinson-Harmon
Religious Studies Department
UNC Charlotte
Macy 208C
(o) 704-687-6046
(f)  704-687-3002
jmrobin4@email.uncc.edu

Fall 2006 Courses
RELS 3137.001 Contemporary African American Religions
RELS 3050.006 Race, Religion, and Murder

Research Interests 
I am interested in investigating the intersection of race, religion and gender within African and African American culture.  Trained as a historian, my passion is to look at how historical contexts inform African and African American religions. The African Diaspora is of key importance to my research and interests because I am fascinated with the religious-cultural “baggage,” African peoples have transported and redefined in contemporary settings.  

Teaching
My teaching areas are as follows: African American religion (slave religion, historical movements),  American and African American history surveys, Liberation Theology, Protest and Civil Rights,  Black Preachers and Sermons, Myth and Ritual, Religions of the African Diaspora (Santeria, Voodoo, etc.), and Black women and Religion.