Director, Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history Expertise: Black religion (African and African diasporic); African women in British Colonial North America; women and religion. Credentials: Bachelor's degree in history from Hampton University; master's degree in education from the University of Virginia; Fulbright-Hays
Fellowship for summer study in Southeast Asia; Ph.D. in American history from the College of William and Mary. She has been
president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and published two books and numerous articles. She is currently co-editing
seven volumes on "Women and Religions of the World" for Praeger/Greenwood Press. Office Phone: 419-372-2269 E-mail:lashcra@bgsu.edu