Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Cheryl B. Anderson is an associate professor of the Old Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She joined the faculty there after completing her doctoral work at Vanderbilt University in 2000. Earlier in her career, Anderson was a practicing attorney with the federal government in Washington, D.C. She is also an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church (Baltimore-Washington Conference). Anderson is the author of Women, Ideology, and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law (2004). Her new book, Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation, will be published in fall 2009. Her current research interests involve contextual and liberationist readings of scripture in the age of HIV and AIDS. She serves as a member of the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, and is chair of the society's Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession. [cheryl.anderson@garrett.edu]
Cynthia M. Baker is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College. She is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002). Her forthcoming articles in biblical studies include "A View from the Feminist Margins and the Jewish Fringes," in Transforming Graduate Biblical Education: Ethos and Discipline, ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Kent Harold Richards, Society of Biblical Literature Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship Series; and "Nationalist Narratives and Biblical Memory," in Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands: Studies in Honor of Carol L. Meyers, ed. Charles Carter and Karla Bombach. [cbaker@bates.edu]
Gay L. Byron is Baptist Missionary Training School Associate Professor of New Testament and Black Church Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. She is the author of Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature (2002) and the recipient of a Luce Fellowship through the Association of Theological Schools (2005–2006). Her current research identifies and examines ancient Ethiopic (Ge'ez) sources for the study of the New Testament and other early Christian writings. She has written a commentary on the book of James, which is included in True to Our [End Page 145] Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary (2007). Byron is an ordained minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). [gbyron@crcds.edu]
Bahar Davary is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She teaches courses on Islam, Islam and Gender, Comparative Ethics, and World Religions. She has received her PhD in Catholic Theological Tradition and Inter-religious Dialogue from the Catholic University of America. She has published articles on forgiveness in Islam and on textual violence, and her forthcoming book is titled Women in the Shadows of the Qur'an: Feminist Islamic Hermeneutics. [davary@sandiego.edu]
Lisa Dordal received her MDiv from Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she was the recipient of the Luke-Acts Prize for her essay entitled "On the Way to Emmaus: Deception as a Vehicle for Illumination and Transformation." Her writing has appeared in Alive Now, Theology Today (online), Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, and Dog Blessings: Poems, Prose, and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs (2008). [lisa@dordal.org]
Tami Haaland is the author of a poetry collection, Breath in Every Room (2001). Recent work has appeared in High Desert Journal, 5AM, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, Letters to the World, and The Writer's Almanac. She is an associate professor of English and director of the honors program at Montana State University, Billings. She is the poetry editor for Stone's Throw Magazine. [tami.haaland@gmail.com]
Amy Kalmanofsky is an assistant professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Her research combines feminist criticism, biblical theology, and horror theory. Her book Terror All Around: Horror, Monsters, and Theology in the Book of Jeremiah appeared in 2008. [amkalmanofsky@jtsa.edu]
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (2008) and In Medias Res (2004). The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, she chairs...
