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Denise Ackermann, DTh
Theology
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
1994-95
Faith and Feminism in the South African Context: A Practical Theological Perspective

Kecia Ali, PhD
Islam
Brandeis University
2003-04
Wives, Husbands, and Islamic Law: The Consolidation of Male Marital Authority in Early Muslim Jurisprudence

Elizabeth Amoah, PhD
History of Religion
University of Ghana
1989-90
Women and the Spiritual Church in Ghana

Teresa Amott, PhD
Psychology and Sociology of Religion
Bucknell University
1988-89
Women, Poverty, and Economic Justice: Theological Foundations and Ethical Action

Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, PhD
Ethics
Monmouth University
1984-85
Ethical Aspects of Office Automation

Gannit Ankori, PhD
Art History
Hebrew University
2005-06
A Faith of Their Own: Women Artists Re-vision Religion

Julia Asher-Greve, DPhil
Hebrew Bible
(Geneva, Switzerland)
1995-96
From Unity to Diversity: Gender Concepts in Early Mesopotamia

B
Paola Bacchetta, PhD
Hindu
University of Kentucky
2002-03
Hindu Nationalism and Gender

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, PhD
History of Religions
SUNY at Buffalo
1998-99
Healers of the Cinnamon Tree, Priestesses of the Moon: Women's Spiritual Empowerment Among the Chilean Mapuche

Mieke Bal, PhD
Hebrew Bible
University of Amsterdam
1985-86
Women and the Book of Judges

Victoria Bernal, PhD
History of Religion
University of California, Irvine
1990-91
The Home and the World: Women, Economic Development, and Islamic Fundamentalism

Ana Maria Bidegain, PhD
History
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Directora
2003-04
Recovering the Historical Memory of Women in Religious Apostolic Life in Latin America, 1959-1999

Jodi Bilinkoff, PhD
History of Christianity
University of North Carolina
1985-86
St. Theresa of Avila and the Avila of St. Theresa, 1480-1620

Phyllis Bird, ThD
Hebrew Bible
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
1989-90
The Faith of Israel's Daughters: Reconstructing Israelite Religion from Women's Perspective

Kari Elizabeth Børresen, PhD
Theology
University of Oslo
1981-82
Anthropology-Typology, Theological Gender Models

Madeleine Boucher, PhD
New Testament
Fordham University
1983-84
Male, Female, and Non-Specific Language and Imagery of God in the Gospels

Joan Branham, PhD
New Testament
Providence College
2001-02
Sacred Space as Gendered Space: Women, Blood, and Sacrifice in Late Antiquity

Sheila Briggs, MA
Theology
University of Southern California
1982-83
Aspects of the History of Women and Religion Since the Enlightenment

Karen McCarthy Brown, PhD
Sociology of Religion
Drew University
1983-84
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

Jorunn J. Buckley, PhD
History of Religion and New Testament
Bowdoin College
1981-82
The Destiny of Female Elements and Figures in Gnosticism

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Katie Cannon, PhD
Ethics
Temple University
1983-84
Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Black Woman's Literary Tradition

Rosemary P. Carbine, PhD
Theology
College of the Holy Cross
2005-06
Ecclesial Work: Toward a Feminist Theology of Creating Community in Personal, Religious, and Public Life

Anne Carr, PhD
Theology
(deceased)
1983-84
Christian Symbols and the Experience of Women

Kelly Chong, PhD
Sociology
2003-04
Agony in Prosperity: Evangelicalism, Women, and the Politics of Gender in South Korea

Carol Christ, PhD
Theology
Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual
1986-87
God and the Prehistoric Goddess: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Religious Studies and Theology

Hyun-Kyung Chung, PhD
Theology
Union Theological Seminary
1992-93
Gospel and Culture: Whose Gospel and What Culture?: Toward an Asian Feminist Theology of Culture

Elizabeth Battelle Clark, PhD
History of Christianity
(deceased)
1989-90
The Politics of God and the Woman's Vote: Religion in the Suffrage Movement in America, 1830-1898

Phyllis Blum Cole, PhD
History of Christianity
Pennsylvania State University
1984-85
The Private Revolution of Mary Moody Emerson

Paula Cooey-Nichols, ThD
Theology
Macalester College
1980-81
Woman and Nature

M. Shawn Copeland, PhD
Theology
Boston College
2004-05
Engendering African American Critical Thought

Gail Paterson Corrington Streete, PhD
New Testament
Rhodes University
1988-89
The Female Redeemer

Sidnie Crawford, PhD
Hebrew Bible
University of Nebraska
2000-01
Making Women Visible: What the Dead Sea Scrolls Say about Women

Alexandra Cuffel, PhD
History of Christianity
Macalester College
2006-07
Shared Saints and Festivals Among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean 1100-1750

Emily Erwin Culpepper, ThD
Theology
University of Redlands
1984-85
Contemporary Goddess Thealogy

D
Carol Delaney, PhD
Hebrew Bible
Stanford University
1992-93
The Legacy of Abraham

Nicola Denzey, PhD
History
Bowdoin College
2004-05
Uncovering Women's Lives in Early Christianity: The Catacomb Evidence

Carol Devens, PhD
History of Christianity
Central Michigan University
1990-91
Female Missionaries and the Ideology of Womanhood

Paola Di Cori, PhD
History of Christianity
University of Urbino
1982-83
Religious Rituals, Body Symbols, and Female Gender Identity: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart in 20th C. Italy and the United States

Carol B. Duncan, PhD
Religion and Society
Wilfrid Laurier University
2006-07
Fashioning the Sacred: Gender and Visual Culture in Caribbean Religion in Canada

F
Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD
History of Christianity
College of William and Mary
1995-96
Saving the Children from the 'Child-Savers': Irish-Catholic Nuns and the Origins of the Welfare State, New York City, 1830-1920

Caroline Ford, PhD
History of Christianity
France
1994-95
The Feminization of Popular Piety in Nineteenth-Century France

Frances S. Foster, PhD
Psychology and Sociology of Religion
Emory University
1991-92
The African Methodist Episcopal Canon of Frances E.W. Harper

Katherine French, PhD
History of Christianity
The State University of New York at New Paltz
1997-98
Women in the Late Medieval and Reformation English Parish

Constance Furey, PhD
Renaissance Poetry
Indiana University
2005-06
Religious Relationships in Devotional Poetry: Gender and Genre in Renaissance Chrisitanity

G
Janet Gallagher, JD
Theology
American Civil Liberties Union
1998-99
Abortion Choices: Pastoral Counseling, Disposition of Fetal Remains, and Post-Abortion Rituals

Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, PhD
History of Christianity
Northwestern University
1988-89
"Writing Out My Heart": The Journals of Frances E. Willard, 1855-1870

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, PhD
Sociology of Religion
Colby College
1981-82
Women's Careers in Afro-American Holiness and Pentecostal Traditions

Sharon Gillerman, PhD
Jewish Studies
Hebrew Union College
2003-04
Narratives of Motherhood: Nation, Religion and the Modern Jewish Woman

Eveline Goodman-Thau, PhD
Jewish Studies
Martin Luther University
1998-99
History, Memory and Redemption: The Role of Women and Gender in Jewish Messianic Experience

R. Marie Griffith, PhD
History
Princeton University
2002-03
Born Again Bodies: American Christianity and Disciplines of the Flesh

H
Bonna Haberman, PhD
Religion and Society
Brandeis University
1996-97
Women Beyond the Wall: A Methodology for Textual Exegesis

Jo Ann Hackett, PhD
Hebrew Bible
Harvard College
1981-82
The Status of Women in the Bible

Shahla Haeri, PhD
Islam
Boston University
2005-06
Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?

Lindsey Harlan, PhD
Indian Religion
Connecticut College
1996-97
Violent Death and Devotion: Heroic Sacrifice and Gender in India

Riffat Hassan, PhD
History of Religion
University of Louisville
1986-87
Equal Before Allah?

Deborah Hertz, PhD
Jewish Studies
University of California at San Diego
1991-92
On the Edge of Judaism: Converting to Christianity in Germany, 1645-1945

Hanna Herzog, PhD
Sociology
Tel-Aviv University
2003-04
Gender, State and Religion

Evelyn Brooks Barnett Higginbotham, PhD
History of Christianity
Dartmouth College
1980-81
Women and the Black Church, 1870-1915

Teresia M. Hinga, PhD
African Religions
Kenyatta University
1991-92
Images of God in African Christianity and the Definition of African Women

Amy Hollywood, PhD
Theology
Dartmouth College
1999-2000
Sensible Ectasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

Maryanne Cline Horowitz,
Church History and Theology
Occidental College and University of California, Los Angles
1979-80
Women of the Reformation

Sue Houchins, PhD
Religion and Society
Union Institute
2000-01
Conjuring Identities: Religious Representations of Black Lesbian Women

Ding-hwa Evelyn Hsieh, PhD
History of Religion
Truman State University
1995-96
Eminent Nuns in Chinese Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism of the Sung Period (960-1279)

Jean Humez, PhD
History of Christianity
University of Massachusetts, Boston
1990-91
Mother's First-Born Daughters: Selected Writings by Shaker Women

I
Tal Ilan, PhD
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew University
1992-93
Jewish Women in Tannaitic-Rabbinic Literature: An Historical Approach

J
Stephanie Jamison, PhD
Indian Religion
Harvard University
1992-93
Sacrificer's Wife/Sacrificed Wife: Gender Patterns in Ancient Indian Religion

Nancy Jay, PhD
Applied Theology
(deceased)
1980-81
Sociology of Religion

Jia Jinhua, PhD
Taoism
City University of Hong Kong
2005-06
Roles and Images of Taoist Priestesses in Medieval China

Caroline Johnson Hodge, PhD
New Testament
College of the Holy Cross
2006-07
Mixed Marriage in the Ancient Household

K
Carol Karlsen, PhD
History of Christianity
University of Michigan
1997-98
Empire of Civility: Civilization and the Iroquois,1750-1850

Karen King, PhD
New Testament
Harvard Divinity School
1994-95
A Commentary on the Gospel of Mary

Anne Klein, PhD
History of Religion
University of Virginia
1982-83
Fertile Yet Empty: Buddhist Wisdom in Female Form

Rebecca Krawiec, PhD
New Testament
SUNY at Buffalo
1997-98
Women's Life in Shenute's White Monastery: A Study in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism

L
Amy Schrager Lang, PhD
History of Christianity
Emory University
1985-86
Invisible Witness, Visible Saint: Women, the Spirit, and the Law in American Fictions

Anne Lerner, PhD
Jewish Studies
Jewish Theological Seminary
2001-02
Visions of Eve: Contemporary and Classical Interpretations of Eve in Jewish Literature

I. Julia Leslie, Dphil
History of Religion
University of London
1987-88
"Suttee" in the Context of Sanskrit Religious Law

Harriet Lutzky, PhD
Psychology and Sociology of Religion
University of Paris
1990-91
The Sacred and the Archaic Mother: A Psychoanalytic Object Relations Interpretation

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, PhD
History of Christianity
Boston College
1998-99
Rational Measures: Gender, Race and Reason in the Eighteenth Century South

M
Gail Malmgreen, PhD
History of Christianity
Rutgers University
1983-84
Women and Religion in Modern Europe

Sylvia Marcos, PhD
Psychology of Religion 
Center for Psychoethnological Research
1984-85
Rethinking Curing: An Approach to Mexican Popular Religiosity Through Examination of Feminine Images and Functions

Nellie McKay, PhD
Ethics
(deceased)
1986-87
Narrative and Identity in Contemporary Black Women's Autobiographies

Brenda Meehan, PhD
Christianity and Culture
(deceased)
1995-96
A Feminist Reading of the Russian Sophiological Tradition

Renee Levine Melammed, PhD
History of Christianity
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
1993-94
The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, 1492-1592

Ann Mongoven, PhD
Ethics
Indiana University
1999-2000
Caritas and Civitas: Feminist Theology and the Transformation of Civic Virtue

Joycelyn Moody, PhD
Christianity and Culture
University of Washington
1996-97
True Confessions: Emotional Power in the Spiritual Narratives of the 19th-Century African American Women

Catherine M. Mooney, PhD
History of Christianity
Virginia Commonwealth University
1991-92
Women's Voice and the Portrayal of Female Sanctity in the Middle Ages

Bonnie Morris, PhD
History of Religion
University of  Buffalo
1990-91
Female Activism and Identity in the Lubavitcher Community

N
Vijaya Nagarajan, PhD
Indian Religion
University of San Francisco
2001-02
Hosting the Divine: The Kolam in Tamil Nadu

Afsaneh Najmabadi, PhD
History of Religion
Barnard College
1988-89
Women, State, and Ideology in the Contemporary Muslim Middle East

Sr. Marie Augusta Neal, PhD
Sociology of Religion
(deceased)
1982-83
The Transformation of Catholic Sisterhoods in the U.S. After Vatican II: 1966-1981

Amy Newman, PhD
Theology
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
1993-94
Feminist Critical Theories and the Radical Critiques of Religion

O
Mercy Amba Oduyoye, MA
Christianity and Culture
University of Ibadan
1985-86
Religious Feminism in Africa

Oyeronke Olajubu, PhD
World Religions
University of Ilorin
2000-01
Veritable Vehicle of Traditions: Women in Yoruba Christianity and Indigenous Religion

Alexandra Owen, PhD
History of Christianity
Northwestern University
1986-87
Subversive Spirit: Women and Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism

P
B. Sree Padma, PhD
Indian Religion
Andhra University
1994-95
Origins and Transformations of Goddess Cults in Andhra Pradesh (India)

Leslie Peirce, PhD
Islam
Cornell University
1995-96
Gender and Islam: Court and Community in a 16th-Century Ottoman Town

Kelly Pemberton, PhD
Islam
University of California, Berkeley
2002-03
Female Piety and Sainthood in South Asian Islam

Michelene Pesantubbee, PhD
Native American Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder
2001-02
Ohoyo Osh Chisba: The Legacy of Corn Woman

Tracy Pintchman, PhD
Hindu
Loyola University
2000-01
Guests at God's Wedding: Hindu Women Celebrating the Marriage of Krishna and Tulsi

Barbara Corrado Pope, PhD
History of Christianity
University of Oregon
1981-82
Female Sanctity and Religious Conflict in Modern France

Catherine Prelinger, PhD
History of Christianity
Yale University
1982-83
The 19th Century Deaconessate: Changing Uses of a Family Model in the German Protestant, Anglican, and American Methodist Experience

R
Shelly Rambo, PhD
Theology
Boston University School of Theology
2006-07
A Feminist Reading of Holy Saturday

Ada Miriam Rapoport-Albert, PhD
History of Religion
University College London
1984-85
Femininity-Divine and Earthly-in the Jewish Mystical Tradition

Elizabeth Rhodes, PhD
History of Christianity
Boston College
1993-94
Life Strategies: Spanish Women's Vidas of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Carol Robb, PhD
Ethics
San Francisco Theological Seminary
1980-81
Sources for Social Ethics in Feminist Perspective

Judylyn Ryan, PhD
Applied Theology
Rutgers University
1994-95
Foundation of Ancient Power: Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Fiction and Film

S
Brigid Sackey, PhD
African Religions
University of Ghana
2002-03
Women in African Religious Movements in Ghana

Fatima Sadiqi, PhD
Islam
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco)
2006-07
The Dynamics of Religion and Language in Moroccan Feminisms

Cynthia Scheinberg, PhD
Christianity and Culture
Mills College
1996-97
Israel's Singing Girls: Women's Poetry and Religious Identity in Victorian England

Mary Segers, PhD
Ethics
Rutgers University
1985-86
American Catholics and Abortion: The Role of the American Catholic Church in National Politics, 1973-1984

Susan Sered, PhD
Religion and Society
Bar-Ilan University
1999-2000
Ethnography in the Service of Theology: Another Step in the Process of Creating Jewish Feminist Theology

Susan Shapiro, PhD
Jewish Studies
Columbia University
1997-98
Figures of Marginalization: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy

Tonia Sharlach, PhD
History
Oklahoma State University
2004-05
State Religion and Women's Religion in Early Babylonia: The Case of Queen Shulgi-simti

Rosalind Shaw, PhD
History of Religion
Tufts University
1992-93
Women, Men and Divination: Temne Negotiations of Gender and Self

Elora Shehabuddin, PhD
Humanities and Polical Science
Rice University
2004-05
Re-shaping the Holy: Muslim Women's Activism in Bangladesh

Janet Farrell Smith, PhD
Ethics
University of Massachusetts, Boston
1987-88
Parenting and Property: Gender and the Ethics of Reproduction

Denise Spellberg, PhD
History of Religion
University of Texas
1989-90
Sanctity and Sexuality: The Dispute Over the Most Exalted Female Personage in Medieval Islam

Elizabeth V. Spelman, PhD
Ethics
Smith College
1991-92
Suffering, Understanding, and the Politics of Pain

Ulrike Strasser, PhD
History of Christianity
University of California, Irvine
1999-2000
Obedient Brides: Masterless Women: Gender, the State, and Religious Change in Counterreformation Bavaria

Gail Sutherland, PhD
Hindu
Louisiana State University
1999-2000
The Road to Sugarland: Religion and Identity Among Hindu Women in Houston

T
Joan Taylor, PhD
New Testament
University of Waikato, New Zealand
1996-97
A Gender Analysis of the Jesus Tradition Within the Wider Religious Matrix of Second Temple Judaism

Nayereh Tohidi, PhD
Psychology and Sociology of Religion
California State University
1993-94
Gender, Religion, and Socio-Economic Transitions in the Muslim Republics of the Former Soviet Union: The Case of Azerbaijan

Emilie Townes, PhD
Ethics
Union Theological Seminary
2001-02
Dismantling Evil: Black Women's Religious Moral Wisdom in the Analysis and Critique of the Cultural Production of Evil.

V
Judith Van Herik, PhD
Psychology and Sociology of Religion.
Pennsylvania State University
1989-90
The Influence of 'Fluss' (Flux): The Reflection of Women's Body-Experience in Freud's Early Work

Elina Vuola, PhD
Religion and Society
Academy of Finland
2002-03
Women, Religion, and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Latin America

W
Amina Wadud, PhD
Islam
Virginia Commonwealth University
1997-98
Alternative Notions of Family and Current Muslim Personal Law Codes

Pamela Walker, PhD
History of Christianity
Carleton University
1993-94
Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: Gender and Popular Culture in the Salvation Army, 1865-1914

Mary Helen Washington, PhD
Christianity and Culture
University of Maryland
1987-88
Experimental Forms and Subversive Designs in Black Women's Fiction

Alison Weber, PhD
History of Christianity
University of Virginia
1998-99
The Fortunes of Ecstasy: Teresa of Avila and the Discalced Carmelite Reform

Chava Weissler, PhD
History of Religion
Lehigh University
1986-87
The Devotional Literature of Central and Eastern European Jewish Women, 1700-1850

Traci West, PhD
Ethics
Drew University
2000-01
Locating Our Worth: Moral Discourse, Spiritual Consequences and Black Women's Lives

Joan Goodnick Westenholz, PhD
Hebrew Bible
Bible Lands Museum, Israel
1987-88
Sacred Marriage in Babylonian Religion and Culture

Delores Williams, PhD
Theology
Union Theological Seminary
1980-81
Images of Community in Black/White Feminist Literature

Z
Susan Zaeske, PhD
Communications Arts
University of Wisconsin/Madison
2004-05
Appropriating Esther: Biblical Narrative as Rhetorical Invention