Julia Robinson

Dr. Julia Robinson Moore is Associate Professor of Religion  in the Department of Religious Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Departments of Africana Studies and History. Trained as a historian, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in African American religious history and religions of the African Diaspora. She is also the principal director of the Honoring the Ancestors Initiative at UNC Charlotte, which conducts, architectural, genealogical, and historical research for the memorialization of formerly enslaved persons buried in historic Presbyterian slave cemeteries throughout Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 

Her current research projects address the agency of mimetic theory in peace-building between various ethnic groups and the history of enslaved burial grounds in the city of Charlotte.  Her most recent book, Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Reverend Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit (2015 and republished in 2024), explores the history of the first Black Baptist Church in Detroit and its partnership with influential figures like Henry Ford and Clarence Darrow during the Great Migration. 

Research Interests

Committed to studying African American religion and history,  mimetic theory, peace-building, and the history of Presbyterianism in the city of Charlotte.