The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture: “On the Rimbones of Glory”
February 15, 2011
Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes Dr. Emilie M. Townes, an American Baptist clergywoman, is a native of Durham, North Carolina.
She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion in Society and Personality from Northwestern University. Dr. Townes is the first Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale University Divinity School and in the fall of 2005, she was the first African American woman elected to the presidential line of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and served as president in 2008. In July 2008, she became the first African American and first woman to serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Divinity School. She has authored several essays and books including her groundbreaking book, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil.
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Dr. Emilie M. Townes, an American Baptist clergywoman, is a native of Durham, North Carolina. 
