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Email keri.day@ptsem.edu
Keri Day is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. In 2023, she was the first African American woman to be promoted to full professor in the 215-year history at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned a B.S. in Political Science and Economics from Tennessee State University, an M.A. in Religion and Ethics from Yale University Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and research interests are in womanist/feminist theologies, social critical theory, cultural studies, economics, and Afro-Pentecostalism. She has authored four academic books, Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (2012); Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (2015); Notes of a Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education (2021); and her most recent book, Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging, (2022). She has been recognized by NBC News as one of six black women at the center of gravity in theological education in America. She is a fourth-generation preacher in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC).
She is currently the chair of the theology department. She also serves as a board member for the American Academy of Religion, which is the largest scholarly society dedicated to the academic study of religion, with more than 6,000 members around the world. She has previously served as a series editor for Cambridge University Press (Religion and Critical Reflection series) and currently is an editorial board member for the Journal of World Christianity.
Alongside her scholarship, she also engages public policy leaders. She has participated in White House briefings in Washington D.C. to discuss issues related to economic policy, religious freedom, and faith-based initiatives. She has written for the New York Daily News, The Christian Century, The Feminist Wire, and The Huffington Post.
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