Emilie Townes
Prof. Emilie Townes to receive Honorary Doctorate from United Lutheran Seminary
The following is an excerpt from “ULS Announces 2025 Honorary Degree Recipients,” featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie townes, published on April 1, 2025. President R. Guy Erwin is pleased to announce that the Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder and the Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes will receive from ULS […]
Prof. Emilie Townes to receive UChicago 2025 Alumni Award
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie townes has been named one of the University of Chicago’s 2025 Professional Achievement Award winners. Dating back to 1941, the awards are given annually by the University of Chicago Alumni Board to “distinguished and committed alumni who have shaped the world and strengthened our global […]
BUSTH Hosts Spring 2025 Bi-Annual Lowell Lecture
On March 25, 2025, the Boston University School of Theology with the generous support of the Lowell Institute was proud to sponsor the bi-annual Lowell Lecture in the Moore Community Center at 745 Commonwealth Avenue. Dr. Marcia Riggs, womanist theology and professor emerita at Columbia Theological Seminary, delivered her lecture titled “Womanist Moral Imagination for […]
BUSTH announces Faculty Publications and Presentations for March 2025
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for March 2025: Eunil David Cho “Psychospiritual Stress, Trauma, and Migration: Understandings for Displaced Communities” in Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology edited by M. Jan Holton and Jill Snodgrass. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2025 Rebecca Copeland Presentation: “Re-thinking […]
BUSTH Community Members share Inspiration during Women’s History Month
The following is an excerpt from the article “The Women who Inspire Us” featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies Emilie M. Townes and STM student Greta Gaffin (’23,’26), published on March 16, 2025 by BU Today. Each March, the nation celebrates Women’s History Month, honoring the vital role of women […]
BUSTH announces Faculty Publications and Presentations for February 2025
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for February 2025: Alejandro Botta “Joshua, Introduction, Study Notes, and Excursuses,” The Westminster Study Bible. New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2024), 297-333. Filipe Maia “John Wesley and the Political Economy of Enclosure,” Methodist […]
A Reflection on Black History Month
I remember the walls of my third-grade classroom in Durham, North Carolina. It was 1963 and I was one year away from discovering that White folks lived in Durham—that was how strict the color line was in even this more liberal area of North Carolina. My teacher, Mrs. Carter and lined the upper part of […]
BUSTH announces Faculty Publications and Presentations for January 2025
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for January 2025: Debbie Brubaker (’11) Presentation: “Grief Reminders when #BlackLivesMatter,” American Academy of Religion, Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit, San Diego, CA, November 2024. Presentation: “Hopeless Disorientation and the Unimaginable Future of Whiteness,” […]
Emilie Townes named Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Leading Womanist Ethicist and Theologian Named New MLK Professor of Religion and Black Studies at STH” by Steve Holt published on May 28, 2024. … Emilie Townes was all set to retire in two years from the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University and return to teaching […]