Tracey Hucks is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is an internationally known and esteemed scholar of Africana Studies and American Religious History and has conducted research in several countries, including Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, England, France, Trinidad, Jamaica, Kenya, and Tanzania. Tracey Hucks is the author of Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism, which was published in 2012, and Obeah, Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad: Volume One: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, which was published in 2022. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Divinity School, Tracey Hucks served as provost and dean of faculty at Colgate University, where she also held the post of James A. Storing Professor of Religion and Africana and Latin American Studies. Prior to that, she taught at Davidson College and Haverford College.