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Department of History
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Dr. Lillian Ervine Ashcraft-Eason |
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Dr. Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Professor (Ph.D., The College of William & Mary, 1975). Dr. Ashcraft-Eason's research and teaching focus on African American, religious,
and cultural history. She has been awarded fellowships from the UNCF Distinguished Faculty Scholar's Fellowship, a Lilly
Summer Seminar Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. She is a past president of the
Society for the Study of Black Religion. She is author of About My Father's Business: The Life of Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (Greenwood Press, 1981) and has co-edited Inside Ethnic America: An Ethnic Studies Reader (Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 1996). Dr. Ashcraft-Eason recently published an essay on Fenda Lawrence, an eighteenth-century
Gambian woman in the Georgia colony. Her current research focuses on cosmological thought among African women in British
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