The honorees are Patrick T. Smith, an associate research professor at Duke Divinity School, Barbara Ransby, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Dawn Mellion-Patin, a vice chancellor at Southern University in Lousiana.
Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey has announced the appointment of two African American scholars to its faculty. Lisa Bowens will be an instructor in New Testament studies and Brian Rainey was named assistant professor of Old Testament studies.
Vera A. Stevens Chatman was named professor emerita after serving on the Vanderbilt University faculty since 1995. S. Yvette Murphy-Erby was promoted to full professor at the University of Arkansas and Eboni Marshall Turman joins the faculty at Duke Divinity School.
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