Prof. Emilie Townes to receive William Rainey Harper Award from Religious Education Association
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie townes will receive the William Rainey Harper Award from the Religious Education Association (REA) at their annual meeting in July 2025.
According to REA president Karen-Marie Yust, ThD, the nominating board believes that Prof. townes’s work “has had a profound effect on the theory and practice of religious education,” and that she “inspire[s] us, and we hope future scholars and practitioners in religious education are influenced by [her] work.”
Past recipients of this distinguished award include Elie Wiesel, Paulo and Elza Freire, Martin Marty, Margaret Mead, and Parker Palmer.