Berkley Center

Tracey Hucks is a professor in the Department of Religion at Haverford College. Her research interests include African American religious history, diaspora theories of North America and the Caribbean, and women and religion in Africa and the Americas. She is the author of several journal articles, as well as Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (2012), which examines the mid-twentieth century emergence of Yoruba traditions in the United States through an investigation of the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s, tracing his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects in Harlem and later in the South. Hucks has also worked on a manuscript about African religious cultures in Trinidad. She holds a B.A. and M.A from Colgate University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.