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Patricia A. Turner, Ph.D, a folklorist, author and academic, is the executive director of The Reinvention Center and the Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education for UCLA.〔(UCLA Newsroom )〕 She lives in Los Angeles, California. ==Biography== Turner has a Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York, Oneonta; and a master's degree and doctorate in rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She began her academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Black Studies Department, and then transferred to the University of California, Davis, where she moved from assistant professor to professor of the African-American and African studies program, and then became Interim Dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies. From 2006 to 2013 she was the Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education for that university.〔(Bayview Alliance )〕 Turner has served as a consulting scholar for several documentaries. She conducted research for and appeared on camera in Marlon Riggs' ''Ethnic Notions,'' which won an Emmy Award in 1989 for best research in a documentary. She also conducted research for and appeared on camera in the 1992 Peabody Award-winning film ''Color Adjustment''. Most recently, she was interviewed for a film on quilt artist Riché Richardson entitled ''Portrait of the Artist: Riché Richardson.''〔(Who We Are )〕 Turner has been interviewed for stories in the ''New York Times'', ''Boston Globe'', ''Chicago Tribune'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Washington Post'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Newsweek'', and many other prominent publications. She has been interviewed on the radio for features on such programs as ''Fresh Air'', ''Talk of the Nation'', and ''All Things Considered''. She has appeared on the ''NBC Nightly News'', the ''CBS Evening News'', and ''The O'Reilly Factor''. In addition, her book ''I Heard It Through the Grapevine'' inspired a story on ABC's ''20/20''.〔(Who We Are ) The Reinvention Center Biography〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Turner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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