Renee K. Harrison
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Renee K. Harrison

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Renee K. Harrison is an Associate Professor of African American and U.S. Religious History at Howard University. Dr. Harrison‘s research interests include an interdisciplinary and interfaith approach to African American religious history and culture; early American religious history; black feminist/womanist thought; aesthetic theory and the arts; phenomenology; and rituals of healing and resistance. Harrison earned her Bachelor of Arts from California State University Northridge; Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Religious Education (with honors) from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and Ph.D. in Religion with an interdisciplinary concentration in history, feminist/womanist thought, African American studies, and philosophy from Emory University. She is the author of Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Engaged Teaching in Theology and Religion, co-author with Dr. Jennie Knight, University of Virginia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Harrison’s most recent publication, Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America, is set for release by Fortress Press this November. Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women, men, and children played in building the US, its physical and fiscal infrastructure. The work highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities—namely, cotton, tobacco, sugar, among others—enriched European and US economies, contributed to the material and monetary wealth of the nation’s founding fathers and other early European immigrants and their descendants and bolstered the wealth of present-day companies founded during the American slave era. A native of Los Angeles, California, Dr. Harrison is a retired 11-year veteran of the LAPD and the former executive director of A Leap of Faith Productions, a non-profit community-based theatre group in Los Angeles. She is an artist, poet, and playwright who loves loves loves teaching! She also enjoys spending her spare time researching and writing, walking on the beach, playing and watching tennis (no doubt Serena), viewing all things DuVernay and Rhimes, and traveling with her spouse Yolonda and pup Satchmo.
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