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Student Director
The Student Director (SD) is an officer of the AAR who is elected by the membership to serve on the AAR Board of Directors for a two year term. The Student Director facilitates conversation among student members and the various bodies of AAR. The SD presides over the Student Liaison Group and is a member of the Graduate Student Committee.
Nichole R. Phillips,
Vanderbilt University
Student Director
2008-2009
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Nichole Renee Phillips is a doctoral candidate in Religion, Psychology,
and Culture in the Graduate Department of Religion (GDR) of
Vanderbilt University. She received her AB in Biochemistry and Religion
from Wellesley College (1993), and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity
School (1999). Her master’s thesis entitled “Brands Plucked Out of the
Burning: An Analysis of the Healing Narratives of Three Antebellum
Black Women,” received honors.
Nichole has served as an AAR student liaison and as the GDR representative to the Student Committee on Personnel and Policy of Vanderbilt Divinity School. She holds memberships in the Person, Culture, and Religion Group (PCR) of the AAR, the Society for Pastoral Theology, the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, and other scholarly organizations. She has presented papers at regional meetings of the AAR and has held teaching fellowships and research assistantships.
Her dissertation project continues the ethnographic research she conducted as a student participant of the “Religion and Politics” Project for Vanderbilt’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture and will focus on mourning practices and death rituals in the West Tennessee community where she is presently doing fieldwork.
You are welcome to contact Nichole (phillipsnr@gmail.com) if you have questions or comments.