“Africa, on its own, merits serious investigation at the level of ideas.”

Marcus L. Harvey is an Assistant Professor of the Religions of Africa and Its Diaspora in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research expertise encompasses indigenous African and Africana religious thought, Zora Neale Hurston, black folklore, literature and religion, the phenomenology of black religion, and epistemology. He earned his PhD in religion with distinction from Emory University in 2012, and has published and presented nationally and internationally on African knowledge traditions and black cultural experience.