Meet Our Faculty

Our faculty with the Office of Black Church Studies includes ordained ministers and world-renowned scholars.
Eric Lewis Williams
Director of the Office of Black Church Studies; Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies
Valerie Cooper
Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies
Quinton Dixie
Associate Research Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States and Black Church Studies
Luke Powery
Professor of Homiletics
Patrick T. Smith
Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics; Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Norbert L. W. Wilson
Professor of Food, Economics, and Community
Wylin D. Wilson
Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics

Meet Our Consulting Faculty

Donna Coletrane Battle
Consulting Faculty
Justin Coleman
Consulting Faculty
James A. Forbes, Jr.
Consulting Faculty
Prince Raney Rivers
Consulting Faculty
Ralph Douglas West
Consulting Faculty

Meet Our Staff

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Krystal Berry
Associate Director