Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

• Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University

Dr. Nilgun Anadolu-Okur is the Presidential Professor of Africology at Temple University's College of Liberal Arts. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Africology, American Studies, Comparative Literature and Women's Writing. She is the chair of Temple University's Faculty Senate Status of Women Committee, and serves as an affiliated faculty at Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. She teaches courses on race, racial theories, Black heritage in Philadelphia, literary discourse, women's writing, theory and methodology. She has published books and journal articles on African American history, Civil War era, the history of Underground Railroad, African American Literature and Comparative Literature. Her essays are published in peer reviewed journals, and edited volumes. Her published works include

Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851 (2018). Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (1997); Essays Interpreting the Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk: The Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2009); Women, Islam and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections and Centered Approaches to Life, Society and Women's Rights in Muslim Countries (2009).

Dr. Okur has received distinguished awards, including two International Fulbright awards; Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Award; J. Howard Wert American Heritage Award and the Commonwealth Speaker Award from Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC). She is the director of the Graduate Program in the Africology and African American Studies Department at Temple University.

• –present Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University

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