Faculty Biographies
Elizabeth M. Bounds
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Associate Director of the Graduate Division of Religion, Coordinator of Initiative in Religious and Practical Theology
Professor Bounds' research interests include the communal dimensions of church and civil society, feminist and liberation ethics, the public voice of religion, and transformative pedagogical practices.
Barbara Day Miller
Assistant Dean of Worship and Music, Lecturer in Liturgical Practices
Dean Day Miller leads the planning and organizing of worship and teaches in practical liturgics. Her interests include congregational planning and participation in worship, creative worship and the arts, and global hymns and songs. She has cowritten a youth musical, and is the founding director of Cantemos, a multicultural youth choir.
Nancy L. Eiesland
Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
Professor Eiesland's research focuses on suburbanization and religious change in the United States, gender and religion, global trends in religion, and sociological and theological aspects of illness and disability.
Teresa L. Fry Brown
Associate Professor of Homiletics
Professor Fry Brown has written articles for Those Preaching Women, Vol. 3; and The Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual. Professor Fry Brown's research interests include homiletics with an emphasis in African American and womanist styles, and womanist ethics, sociology, and history focusing on African American spiritual values.
Joy Ann McDougall
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology
Professor McDougall's research interests inclue twentieth-century German theology, political an liberation theologies, and feminist-womanist debates in the doctrines of God and Christology.
Mary Elizabeth Moore
Director of Women in Theology and Ministry, Professor of Religion and Education
Professor Moore's work is grounded in practical theology with concern for tikkun olam (repair of the world). Her current research focuses in feminist theology and spirituality, cultural diversity in youth ministry, reconciliation theory and practice, and sacramental teaching.
Carol A. Newsom
C.H. Candler Professor of Old Testament
Professor Newsom's current research focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Wisdom tradition, and apocalyptic literature. She is author of The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford University Press 2003).
Gail R. O'Day
Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs and Almar H. Shatford Professor of Preaching and New Testament
Professor O'Day's current research focuses on the Gospel of John, the relationship between the Old and New Testaments, and the Bible and preaching.
Karen D. Scheib
Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling
Professor Scheib works in the area of practical and pastoral theology. She is the author of Challenging Invisibility: Practices of Care with Older Women (2004). Her current writing explores the intersection of ecclesiology and practices of care. Her other research interests include faith and health, theological and cultural dimensions of crises and trauma, and narrative theory and therapy.