Ph.D., Harvard University
Cori Tucker-Price is an Assistant Professor of the African American Religious Experience and Benjamin Banneker Faculty Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century African American religious history, religion and the U.S. West, religion and media, digital humanities, and migration studies.
She is currently completing her first book, Righteous Citizens: A History of Race and Religion in Los Angeles, 1903–1953, which traces the historical and social forces that shaped African American religious institutions in southern California. Her digital humanities project, Migration as Methodology: Digital Mapping and Black Religion in the U.S. West, builds on this research through an open-source digital mapping platform that visualizes Black migration patterns during the World War II era. Using digital archaeology, this project develops a more expansive understanding of African American history—one that emerges from the ground up and centers the ordinary lives that sustained broader struggles for freedom.
Her work has been supported by various funding bodies, including the Huntington Library, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and has appeared in the Pacific Historical Review, The Los Angeles Times, and the Crossroads Project at Princeton University. Prior to her appointment at UCSB, she held postdoctoral fellowships at USC and Dartmouth College.
Courses
- Race and Religion in the American West
- Introduction to African American Religion