# Patricia Turner

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. 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.