{"id":12929,"date":"2023-09-27T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?page_id=12929"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:34:29","slug":"michele-sigg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/about-us\/michele-sigg\/","title":{"rendered":"Mich\u00e8le Sigg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13022\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-303x300.jpg 303w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2024\/01\/MSigg-600px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Mich\u00e8le Sigg is the Executive Director of the\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dacb.org\/\">Dictionary of African Christian Biography<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0(<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/dacb.org\/\">DACB.org<\/a><\/span><span>), an open access, collaborative digital project with the mission to document the history of African Christianity. The over 3,000 biographies on the site represent only a fraction of the stories to be collected. She is also Editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of African Christian Biography,<\/em>\u00a0a quarterly publication available on the\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/dacb.org\/journal\">website<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2144\/35321\">Open BU<\/a><\/span><span>. Her work with the DACB has led her to develop resources and publications for theological education in Africa. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Sigg\u2019s research focuses on Global and African Christianity, women\u2019s history, mission history, and revival movements. In 2022, she published her first monograph, <i>Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth Century France<\/i> (Baylor University Press). Her other publications include \u201cCarrying Living Water for the Healing of God\u2019s People: Women Leaders in the\u00a0<em>Fifohazana<\/em>\u00a0Revival and the Reformed Church in Madagascar\u201d (<em>Studies in World Christianity<\/em>, 2014), \u201cThe\u00a0<em>Dictionary of African Christian Biography<\/em>\u00a0and the Story of Ethiopian Christianity\u201d\u00a0(<em>IBMR<\/em>, Oct. 2015) and a co-authored article entitled \u201cIndigenous and Vernacular Christianity\u201d in the\u00a0<em>Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity<\/em>\u00a0(2016). More recently, she published a chapter in\u00a0<em>African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges<\/em>\u00a0(Cluster, 2018) entitled \u201cPointillist History and the Essential Role of Biography in the\u00a0<em>Dictionary of African Christian Biography<\/em>\u201d and contributions to \u201cFrance\u201d in the\u00a0<em>World Christian Encyclopedia<\/em>\u00a0(2020). Book chapters include \u201cTrinity in a Woman\u2019s Soul: Recovering a Women\u2019s Spirituality for Mission in Jan Hus\u2019 <i>Dcerka<\/i> [<i>The Daughter<\/i>]\u201d \u00a0in\u00a0<em>Sixteenth-Century Mission: Global Mission in the Age of Reformations<\/em>\u00a0(Lexham Press, 2021) and \u201cFriends for Mission: \u00c9milie Mallet and Albertine de Broglie\u201d in <i>Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World <\/i>(Pickwick Publications, 2021). <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Email:\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"mailto:dacb@bu.edu\">dacb@bu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mich\u00e8le Sigg is the Executive Director of the\u00a0Dictionary of African Christian Biography\u00a0(DACB.org), an open access, collaborative digital project with the mission to document the history of African Christianity. The over 3,000 biographies on the site represent only a fraction of the stories to be collected. 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