ELECTIONS 2008
A female ‘pastor in chief’?

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Joyce Antler is professor of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. She has written about Jewish women in politics and American public life. Contact 781-736-3036, antler@brandeis.edu.
• Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She has written widely, including If It Wasn’t for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community. Contact 207-859-4715 (she is on sabbatical for the 2007-2008 year.)
• Sister Mary Ann Hinsdale is associate professor of theology at Boston College in Massachusetts. She is author of Women Shaping Theology. Contact 617-552-8603, maryann.hinsdale@bc.edu. (She is on sabbatical in spring 2008.)
• Cynthia Lynn Lyerly is associate professor of history at Boston College in Massachusetts. She has written about women in Southern churches. Contact 617-552-3783, cynthia.lyerly@bc.edu.
• Nancy Pineda-Madrid is assistant professor of theology at Boston College in Massachusetts. She has written about Latina theologians and theology. Contact 617-552-2285, pinedama@bc.edu. (She is on sabbatical for the 2007-08 school year.)

IN THE EAST
• Anthea Butler is assistant professor of religion at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. She wrote the chapter “Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ” in The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past (2007). Contact 585-275-7465, abutler2@mail.rochester.edu.
• The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, who has standing in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and American Baptist Church, directs the department of religion for the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. She chairs the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders and serves on the national committee of the Clergy Leadership Network for National Leadership Change. Contact her through 716-357-6274 or sthayer@chautauqua-inst.com.
• Mary Hunt is co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual. Contact her in Silver Spring, Md., 301-589-2509, water@hers.com.
• Daisy L. Machado is a professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She can discuss women’s religious leadership throughout the nation’s history. Contact 212-280-1385, dmachado@uts.columbia.edu.
• Pamela S. Nadell is the Patrick Clendenen Professor of History and director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University.  She is the author of Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985 and co-editor of Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Contact 202-885-2425, pnadell@american.edu.
• Maureen Trudelle Schwarz is associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in New York and author of Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners. Contact 315-443-4995, mtschwar@maxwell.syr.edu.
• The Rev. Allison Stokes, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, is director of the Interfaith Chapel and the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester’s River Campus. Her books include, as co-author, Defecting in Place: Women Claiming Responsibility for Their Own Spiritual Lives. Contact her through the chapel, 585-275-4321.
• Beth Wenger is associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She wrote the chapter titled “The Politics of Women’s Ordination: Jewish Law, Institutional Power and the Debate Over Women in the Rabbinate” in Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Contact 215-898-5702, bwenger@sas.upenn.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Teresa Fry Brown is an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta. She is author of Weary Throats and New Songs: Black Women Proclaiming God’s Word and God Don’t Like Ugly: African American Women Handing on Spiritual Values. Contact 404-727-4436, tfry01@emory.edu.
• Jamillah Karim is an assistant professor of religious studies at Spelman College in Atlanta. She has written articles about African-American women in Islam. Contact 404-270-5524, JKarim@spelman.edu.
• Sandy Dwayne Martin is a religion professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. He has written about women’s roles in African-American denominations. Contact 706-542-1485, martin@uga.edu.
• Rosetta E. Ross is an associate professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Spelman College in Atlanta. She wrote Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion and Civil Rights and has written about black women’s interaction with political institutions. Contact 404-270-5527, rross@spelman.edu.
• Women-Church Convergence is a coalition of Catholic organizations and groups that works for the empowerment of women in church and society. It lists member organizations. Contact coordinators Bridget Mary Meehan or Susan Farrell in Falls Church, Va., 703-671-6712.

IN THE SOUTH
• The Rev. Joan S. Gray is moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Contact her in Louisville, Ky., 888-728-7228 ext. 5406, gmoderator@ctr.pcusa.org.
• C. Melissa Snarr is assistant professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is author of Social Selves and Political Reforms, which looks at how Christian views of moral formation affect political engagement. She is writing a book on the role of gender and religion in the U.S. living wage movement. Contact 615-343-0677, melissa.snarr@vanderbilt.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Catherine A. Brekus is an associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past (2007) and has written about Protestant female preachers. Contact 773-702-8223,cbrekus@midway.uchicago.edu.(She is on sabbatical for the year 2007-2008.)
• Deborah M. Gill is professor of New Testament exposition at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Mo. She served as commissioner of discipleship and national director of Christian education for the Assemblies of God and was senior pastor of Living Hope Church in North Oaks, Minn. She has written articles about women clergy in the Assemblies of God. Contact 800-467-2487, dgill@agts.edu.
• Riv-Ellen Prell is a professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She is editor of Women Remaking American Judaism (2007). Contact 612-624-1658, prell001@umn.edu.
• Mary R. Sawyer is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University in Ames. She has written about women’s leadership roles in the black church. Contact (after Feb. 11) 515-294-3341,sawyerm@iastate.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Martha Sonntag Bradley is a professor of architecture and dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the author of Pedestals & Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority & Equal Rights. Contact 801-585-5765,bradley@arch.utah.edu.
• Rabbi Malka Drucker of Santa Fe, N.M., is the author of White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America. Contact 505-988-1860, malka@malkadrucker.com.
• Nancy J. Ramsay is dean of Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as executive vice president and professor of pastoral theology and counseling. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Contact 817-257-7577, n.ramsay@tcu.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Rita Nakashima Brock is co-director of Faith Voices for the Common Good in Oakland, Calif. An author and religion scholar, she directed a think tank for women at Harvard University. Contact 510-459-5123, rita@faithvoices.org.
• Kathleen M. Moore is an associate professor of law and society at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Contact 805-893-7537, kmoore@lawso.ucsb.edu.
• The Rev. Paula D. Nesbitt is an Episcopal priest whose expertise includes gender differences in clergy. She is priest associate at All Souls Episcopal Church in Berkeley, Calif., and author of Feminization of the Clergy in America: Occupational and Organizational Perspectives. Contact 510-848-1755.