Mitzi J. Smith - I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

Katie Geneva Cannon (PhD, MPhil, Union Theological Seminary) is Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Rev. Dr. Cannon was the first African American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA). She focuses her work in the areas of Christian ethics, womanist theology, and women in religion and society. She has lectured nationally on theological and ethical topics and is the author or editor of numerous articles and seven books including Katies Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community and Black Womanist Ethics .

Lynne St. Clair Darden (PhD, Drew University) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a contributor to Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission (Fortress, 2014).

Kelly Brown Douglas (PhD, Union Theological Seminary) is Professor of Religion at Goucher College. She specializes in womanist theology and sexuality and the black church. Dr. Douglas is the author or editor of numerous articles and books including Sexuality and the Black Church, Whats Faith Got to Do With It? and Sexuality and the Sacred . She has been honored as Womanist Legend by the Black Religious Scholars Group at the Womanist Legends Gala and was the first recipient of the Anna Julia Cooper Award from the Union of Black Episcopalians.

Febbie C. Dickerson is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University. She also received an MDiv degree from Vanderbilt University and is ordained clergy. Febbies research interest includes the special Lukan material and the depiction of women in Luke-Acts. Her publications are The Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:2228): Discharging the Stigma of Single Moms in the African American Church, in Matthew: Texts @ Contexts (Fortress, 2013) and The Ten Commandments in an African American Community, in Global Perspectives on the Bible (Pearson, 2013).

Wil Gafney (PhD, Duke Divinity School) is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author of Daughters of Miriam and a general editor of The Peoples Bible and The Peoples Companion to the Bible . Her volume Womanist Midrash is forthcoming. An Episcopal priest, the Rev. Gafney does the work of biblical scholarship and interpretation in Jewish and Christian congregations as well as in the academy.

Clarice Martin (PhD, Duke University) is Jean Picker Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. She is a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary (MDiv) and the Duke University Graduate School of Religion (PhD). Her teaching and research interests include early Christianity, the late antique mediterranean ( 200800 CE), modern religious thought, ethics, and philosophy, and africana womens history, literature, and thought. She has numerous publications, including Pentecost Dr. Martin is the proud mother of six children, and resides in Manlius, New York.

Madipoane J. Masenya (DLit et Phil, Biblical Studies) is chair of the Department of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is the author or co-author/editor of three books and numerous articles, including How Worthy is the Woman of Worth? ReReading Proverbs 31:1031 in African-South Africa (Peter Lang, 2004) and African Women, HIV/AIDS and Faith Communities (Cluster, 2003).

Yolanda M. Norton is a fourth year doctoral student in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel at Vanderbilt University where her current research interests include womanist interpretation and narrative and literary criticism. In particular, her current work is focused on the books of Genesis and Ruth, and how each text treats foreign women. She is concerned with the ways in which insider-outsider paradigms in Scripture influence constructions of identity such that they vilify and/or oppress women of color who encounter the biblical canon in the modern world. She holds MDiv and MTS degrees from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, where she received both the C. C. Goen Award for Church History and the Award for Excellence in Biblical Interpretation. She is also ordained clergy in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), having been ordained at New Covenant Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).