CHARLES L. CHAVIS, JR

HAFRAM, G.C. President

 

Charles L. Chavis Jr. is a Doctor of Philosophy of History student at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. An honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he studied African American and African Diaspora Studies before receiving his Masters of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Univeristy. An accomplished researcher and the author of several reference works and critical reviews, Charles has published with

Religious Education (Routlege), the International Bulletin of Missionary Research and Black Past Remembered & Reclaimed (BlackPast.org). In August of 2012, in response to the events surrounding the murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Charles was invited to publish his essay “Strange Fruit in the Age of Obama” in Frank Naruice Wood’s Rooted in the Soul. Charles has been a Research Assistant to the Director of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, Victor Anderson, Ph.D. and a Library Scholar at Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His publications have explored the intersections of enslavement and religion and their role in shaping the modern realities of those of African descent. His next project is entitled Musing the “Omniscient Mirror” of Our Past: Mending the “Two-ness” of the African American Christian Experience.