Dr. Albert Thompson

Member, Institute on Religion & Democracy Board of Directors

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Dr. Albert Thompson is a war, conflict, and identity historian. Currently, he teaches United States history at Howard University and formerly at Northern Virginia Community College. He holds a master’s degree in military history from Norwich University, where his research focused on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He completed his Ph.D. in United States History at Howard University, where he authored his dissertation on the New Deal, race, and the development of postwar American identity. Since 2016 he has led discussion and training on the history of race in the British Atlantic, American Christianity, and the link between this history and contemporary social and health morbidity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Thompson serves on the Provincial Executive Committee of Anglican Church in North America and is a member at Christ the King Anglican Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

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