Corey D. B. Walker

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Corey D. B. Walker is a professor who specializes in African American social, political, and religious thought. He is the author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press. Walker also acted as editor of a special issue on "Theology and Democratic Futures" of the journal Political Theology and was the Associate Editor of SAGE's Encyclopedia of Identity. He is a Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities in the English department at Wake Forest University, [1] where he is the director of the African American Studies program. [2]

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Education

Walker earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Norfolk State University, M.Div. degree from Virginia Union University, M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from The College of William and Mary.

Career

Prior to assuming his position a Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, he was a visiting professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the Humanities at the University of Richmond, and had served as dean for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. [3] He also served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as the John W. and Anna Hodgin Hanes Professor of the Humanities at Winston-Salem State University. Previously, he was the chair of the department of Africana Studies at Brown University. [4] Walker also served as a member of the faculty in the department of Religious Studies and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, director of the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge at the University of Virginia, and visiting professor at the Historisches Institut at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. [5]

Dr. Walker also serves as the Senior Fellow in Religious Freedom at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute in Washington, D.C.

Publications & Talks

Films

Walker co-directed and co-produced the documentary film Fifeville with acclaimed artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson.

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References

  1. ↑ "Corey D. B. Walker – WFU Department of English". english.wfu.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. ↑ Sayre, Maddie. "Deacon Profile: Corey D. B. Walker". Old Gold & Black. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  3. ↑ "Corey D. B. Walker". Interdisciplinary Humanities. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  4. ↑ "The New Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winston-Salem State University". Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. June 28. 2013 – via Proquest.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Corey Walker Named Dean of the WSSU College of Arts and Sciences". Targeted News Service. June 24. 2013.
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