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I believe in excellence, hard work, quality of education, and civility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\nDR. N\u0130LG\u00dcN ANADOLU-OKUR <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tenured Presidential Professor (Full)
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Temple University<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Africology and African American Studies
\nDirector, Undergraduate Program, AAAS<\/p>\n

Chair, Faculty Senate Status of Women Committee
\nPhiladelphia, Pa. 19122
\n215-204-8513
\nanadolu@temple.edu<\/p>\n

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Post-doctoral Fellow, Fulbright, Temple University, 1988-1989.<\/h2>\n

Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0American and African American Studies<\/p>\n

M.A.\u00a0\u00a0American Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio (With Honors).<\/p>\n

Fulbright Scholar,\u00a01978-1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advanced Certificate in English, University of Texas, Austin, TX.<\/p>\n

B.A. English Language and Literature, (summa cum laude).<\/p>\n

Doctoral Dissertation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToward a New Identity of Manhood as Reflected in Dramatic Works of \u00a0Le Roi Jones (Amiri Baraka).\u201d Doctoral Advisor: Professor Gonul Ucele
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Foreign Language Proficiency:<\/strong><\/p>\n

German (written and oral proficiency)<\/p>\n

Turkish (written and oral proficiency)<\/p>\n

Greek\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (oral proficiency)<\/p>\n

Arabic\u00a0\u00a0 (oral proficiency)<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Books, Single-Authored and or Edited<\/span>
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Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851.<\/strong> <\/em>The University Press of Tennessee, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Women, Islam and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

United Kingdom:\u00a0<\/i>Cambridge Scholars Publishing, December, 2009.<\/p>\n

Essays Interpreting Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0. New York:<\/p>\n

Edwin Mellen,\u00a02009.<\/p>\n

Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Charles Fuller. 8th edition, <\/strong>New York: Routledge, 2014; previous editions by Francis Taylor, since 1998.<\/em><\/p>\n

Selected Book Chapters, Single Authored
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Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. \u201cFrom Cybele to Artemisia: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia,\u201d in Motherhood in the Ancient World<\/em>. Eds. Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 34 pages, 9200 words.<\/p>\n

Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. \u201cWriting History and Reading Texts: An Afrocentric Narrative of Culture,\u201d in Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies.<\/em> Eds. Clyde Ledbetter and Molefi K. Asante. (New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2016), 19 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4985-3070-5.<\/p>\n

Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. \u201cThe Enduring Allure of Rumi and Sufism in American Popular Culture,\u201d Muslims and American Popular Culture in Two Volumes<\/em>. Eds. Iraj Omidvar and Anne Richards. (New York, NY: ABC-Clio, LLC by Praeger, 2014), 36 pages, 11,426 words ISBN-13: 978-0313379628 ISBN-10: 0313379629.<\/p>\n

Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. \u201cDrama and Performance from Civil Rights to Black Arts\u201d in Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature.<\/em> Ed. Julie B. Armstrong. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 25 pages, 7,500 words, ISBN: 9781107635647.<\/p>\n

\u201cMa\u2019at, Afrocentricity and the Critique of African American Drama<\/span>,\u201d\u00a0Molefi Kete Asante and Afrocentricity: In Praise and in Criticism,<\/i>\u00a0Ed. Dhyana Ziegler. Nashville, Tennessee: Winston-Derek Publishers Group, 1995.,137-150.<\/p>\n

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK MANUSCRIPTS:<\/span><\/p>\n

1.”Underground Railroad in American Popular Culture” (In progress)<\/p>\n

2. “Disarming the Jupiterian: How Power and Identity Shaped Colonialism” (Edits in progress)<\/p>\n

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ANNUAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONFERENCE, in February, at TEMPLE UNIVERSITY’s WALK AUDITORIUM (Free and open to all, this is an annual academic and scholarly conference on the history of the Underground Railroad network in the U.S.)<\/p>\n

EDITORIAL: (Selected)
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Refereed Journal Articles (peer-reviewed) Print and Web<\/strong><\/p>\n