Black Women in Higher Education: School of Divinity
November 15, 2023
AUTHOR: Hyeladzirra Banu
The Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD) has existed for over 150 years—since 1870. Historically, following the aftermath of the civil rights movement, the school has seemed to value and adopt a progressive gendered lens, enabling faculty perspectives via platforms such as the Feminine in Religious Traditions lecture series, initiated in 1985. This study examines the historical legacies of theology and divinity as a male-dominated field that has gradually shifted at Howard because of the efforts of its first women administrators, students and faculty and theoretical trends in womanist and feminist theology that support scholar-theologians in academia, the church, and society.