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Yale Divinity School
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Emilie M. Townes
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology
A.B., University of Chicago
A.M., University of Chicago Divinity School
D.Min., University of Chicago Divinity School
Ph.D., Northwestern University
emilie.townes@yale.edu
(203) 432-3240
Professor Townes’s teaching and general research interests focus on Christian ethics, womanist ethics, critical social theory, cultural theory and studies, as well as on postmodernism and social postmodernism. Her specific interests include health and health care; the cultural production of evil; analyzing the linkages among race, gender, class, and other forms of oppression; and developing a network between African American and Afro-Brazilian religious and secular leaders and community-based organizations. Among her many publications are Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health and a Womanist Ethic of Care; Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope; and In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness. Prior to her appointment at Yale, Professor Townes served as the Carolyn Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Currently she is the vice president of the American
Academy of Religion and will serve as president-elect in 2007. Professor Townes is an ordained American Baptist clergywoman.