Dr. Julia Robinson Moore is an 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 American religious history. Her current book project, New Frontiers in Mimetic Theory explores how René Girard’s work can speak to the lived realities of contemporary culture. 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
American religious history, mimetic theory, historic preservation, memorialization, and the history of Presbyterianism in the city of Charlotte.