Angela Denise Dillard is the Earl Lewis Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and associate dean for undergraduate education at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. She was an associate professor of history and politics at

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's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work specializes in American and African-American

intellectual history Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualization, conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of ...

including issues of race, religion, and politics. Dillard was appointed as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the

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in 2024.

Education

Dillard completed a Ph.D. in American Culture at the

in 1995. Her dissertation, ''From the Reverend Charles A. Hill to the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr.: Change and continuity in the patterns of civil rights mobilizations in Detroit, 1935-1967'', was supervised by Earl Lewis and Robin Kelley. She also has an M.A. from the University of Michigan in American Culture, an M.A. from the

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in Political Theory, and a B.A. from

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in Justice, Morality, Constitutional Democracy.

Works

Dillard wrote ''Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit religion and political radicalism in Detroit from the 1930s to the 1960s''. She also wrote ''Guess who's coming to dinner now?'', a critical study of conservative political thought among African Americans, Latinos, women and homosexuals. Scott L. Malcomson reviewed ''Guess who's coming to dinner now?'' for ''

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'' and described it as timely after the election of

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as U.S. president and his efforts to maintain a diverse cabinet and staff of Conservatives. Dillard has published works in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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'', and has appeared as a guest on television and radio programs.

Bibliography

*''Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit'', U of Michigan Press, 2007 *''Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America'' (NYU, 2001) *"Adventures in conservative feminism", ''

Society A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. ...

'', March 2005, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 25–27,

References

External links

List of her publications
with descriptions and a couple reviews on the University of Michigan website {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillard, Angela American non-fiction writers University of Michigan alumni New York University faculty Michigan State University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)