Emilie M. Townes is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School with a joint appointment in the African American Studies Department of Yale University, the Religious Studies Department, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. She is the author of previous books: Womanist Ethics, Womanist Hope, In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness, and Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care.
