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Nichole Phillips was on her way to medical school when she heard a different calling.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI had always been interested in religion, but medical school was my goal,\u201d recalled Phillips, an assistant professor of religion and human difference in Emory\u2019s\u00a0Candler School of Theology<\/a>. \u201cTaken together, I thought I would be a more empathetic, compassionate physician.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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So she embraced them both: an undergraduate biochemistry major and religion minor who was both president of her pre-med society and deeply involved in ministry to black women through Ethos, a Wellesley College student organization for women of African descent.<\/span><\/div>\n

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With research interests that today span religion, psychology, African American history and culture, as well as community and ritual studies, Phillips still considers herself a scientist: \u201cI\u2019m both a social scientist of religion and a practical theologian,\u201d she explains.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As a Humanistic Inquiry Program (HIP) Fellow, a position supported through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen the humanities and expand interdisciplinary inquiry, Phillips is in her element \u2014 among a new generation of humanities scholars with both deep training in the humanities and broad training in other areas.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cI think it\u2019s wonderful,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause I hold science and religion in tension, I\u2019ve always been interdisciplinary. I\u2019m bringing sociology, anthropology and ethnography into the conversation about the science of religion.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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